Some will be delighted at the Labour leaders banishing of traitors. But not enough to gain this exercise a net gainWhen I first heard that Jeremy Corbyn had sacked Mike Dugher as his cultural affairs spokesman,I thought the Labour leader had wisely thought better of his much touted revenge reshuffle” way. He’d settled for making a token assertion of his authority by dismissing an expendable colleague whom few outside Westminster and Dugher’s Barnsley East constituency had heard of. But when the overnight news revealed that Team Corbyn had also replaced its pro-Trident defence spokeswoman, Maria Eagle, and with Jez’s more biddable Islington neighbour,Emily Thornberry, I realised things were getting serious. Continue reading...
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