CORBYNITE MP

Diane Abbott slams Starmer for trying to scrap ‘one member, one vote’ in labour leadership elections, which he hoped would prevent any repeat of the calamity when Jeremy Corbyn won control of the party in 2015.

Can this be the same Abbott who was so opposed to bringing in ‘one member, one vote’ back in 2014? ‘if we give way to people who want to weaken the links with trade unions, in future the unions may not automatically support labour,’ she said then.

She may also recall it was under Corbyn that 40 per cent of unite members, repelled by the party’s leftward slide, voted tory.