In the Spring I picked apart the shifting sands of the Labour Party’s power dynamics. In that article I made the distinction between the soft left faction that the media seem so desperate to carve out, and the actual soft left. I argued the media’s imagined soft left, epitomised by figures such as Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham, is actually just the left-leaning element of the faction descended from New Labour Brownites. The actual soft left is the faction that can trace its ro

When four ex-cabinet ministers split from the Labour Party in 1981 to form the SDP, they did so with the intention of ‘breaking the mould’ of British politics. This Gang of Four believed the Labour Party was on an irrecoverable journey down the Hard Left flank of British Politics. Veteran left-winger Michael Foot had just been elected leader, the Trotskyite Militant Tendency had successfully infiltrated the party, and Tony Benn was circling, waiting to steal the Deputy Leader

Following Labour’s November budget, much of the commentariat mourned the supposed death of New Labour. The Times’s Danny Finkelstein, for instance, suggested the fiscal event marked the end of the ‘New Labour dream’ , while The Independent’s John Rentoul suggested the faction laid buried beneath the budget . Much of the country will, however, have, even if quietly, been uttering the following sentiment subsequent to reading of its passing: ‘phew’. Seen as a necessary evil by

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