
Prof Prem Sikka: Keir Starmer failed to offer policies at Labour Conference
The leader may have appeased neoliberals and corporate grandees but that will not help to build a good society or a sustainable economy.

The leader may have appeased neoliberals and corporate grandees but that will not help to build a good society or a sustainable economy.

Hamza Ali Shah argues Starmer’s leadership has so far been ‘typified by U-turns, disingenuity and underhandedness’

Here’s what happened at Compass’s Labour Conference fringe rally on the the possibility of Labour backing electoral reform

Interrupted by chants of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn”, Starmer attempted to present Labour as a serious alternative to the Tory government.

Rumour has it that Starmer had a private meeting with the Sun newspaper during the Labour party conference in Brighton.

“If Keir had said in his leadership campaign he was going to reduce the power of Labour party members, and their democratic say, he wouldn’t have been elected leader of the Labour Party.”

“What general secretary can be considered a success when you’ve lost nearly 150,000 members and when the party’s in disarray as a result of a purge?”

Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour’s one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say.

“We’ve lost over 100,000 members, some people say 150,000, that’s the army that goes out and fights the elections for us”.

‘Starmer has not been the unifying leader many had envisaged, nor has he continued to advocate for the ten pledges he put to the membership a mere eighteen months ago.’