With deep divisions in both the pro and anti Corbyn camps,public-facing policy will retract a back seatIt is not Jeremy Corbyn’s stated ambition to scrub ideological impurity from the Labour ranks. He calls for tolerance of different opinions on the left in a spirit of democratic renewal. He opposes rule changes that would accomplish it easier for trigger-happy activists to unseat MPs of doubtful loyalty to the new regime. No purges, is the line from the top; natural attrition is another matter.
Few on the left mourned the departure of Norman Warner, and a New Labour-era health minister who relinquished the whip on Monday,citing “calamitous decline” in the quality of the party’s leadership and warning of certain election defeat. For Corbyn supporters, Warner’s fate was a felicitous self-scalping. Here is an unelected peer who voted with the Tories on hated NHS reforms, or once suggested that patients be charged by the night for hospital stays: a perfectly despicable heretic.
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Source: theguardian.com