Endnotes
Preface
1. Kalyeena Makortoff, Franz Wild, and Ben Stockton, ‘HSBC Faces Questions Over Disclosure of Alleged Money Laundering to Monitors’, The Guardian (28 July 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/28/hsbc-faces-questions-over-disclosure-of-alleged-money-laundering-to-monitors
2. ‘Labour MP: How Politicians Have Lost the Trust of Brits’, PoliticsJOE (15 April 2025), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRkWZsfGgA
Introduction
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2. Rowena Mason, ‘Lowest Turnout in UK General Election Since Universal Suffrage, Report Shows’, The Guardian (12 July 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/12/lowest-turnout-in-uk-general-election-since-universal-suffrage-report-shows
3. Post by @joshsimonsmp (18 April 2024), https://x.com/joshsimonsmp/status/1781088044998705491
4. Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer (London: Bodley Head, 2025), p. 83.
5. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 83.
6. ‘Interview with Michael Crick: “I’m a Blairite but I Won’t Vote Labour”’, Novara Media (4 June 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHowypN4nw
Chapter 1. The Rise of Labour Together
1. Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn (London: Vintage, 2021), p. 238.
2. ‘Labour Together’ (archived 27 March 2016), https://web.archive.org/web/20160327215138/http://www.labourtogether.co.uk/; ‘Labour Together’ (archived 2 September 2018), https://web.archive.org/web/20180902082929/http://www.labourtogether.co.uk/
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4. Nick Gutteridge, ‘Steve Reed: “We Have A Broken Criminal Justice System That No Longer Has the Trust of the Public”’, The Telegraph (5 February 2023), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/05/steve-reed-have-broken-criminal-justice-system-no-longer-has/
5. Labour Together, ‘Homepage’ (archived 21 May 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20230521064909/https://www.labourtogether.uk/
6. ‘Blue Labour Limited’, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10360252/officers
7. Jack Mendel, ‘Four New Vice Presidents Announced By Jewish Leadership Council’ (29 January 2016), https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/four-new-vice-presidents-announced-by-jewish-leadership-council/
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11. Jon Cruddas, ‘Labour Must Return Power to the People’, The Guardian (24 October 2015), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/24/labour-must-return-power-to-the-people
12. Rowena Mason, ‘Labour Together Launch Aims to Unify and Renew Party’, The Guardian (31May 2016), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/31/labour-together-launch-aims-to-unify-and-renew-party
13. Jon Cruddas, ‘Labour MP Jon Cruddas: Why We Must Band Together to Defeat the Tories’, The Mirror (1 June 2016), https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/labour-mp-jon-cruddas-must-8091518; Sharon Taylor, ‘Labour Together Will Rebuild the Historic Link Between Our Party and the Communities We Aim to Serve’, LabourList (1 June 2016), https://labourlist.org/2016/06/labour-together-will-rebuild-the-historic-link-between-our-party-and-the-communities-we-aim-to-serve/
14. Anushka Asthana, Taken as Red: How the Election Was Won and Lost (Manchester: HarperNorth, 2024), p. 64, e-book.
15. Nick Gutteridge, ‘Steve Reed: “We Have a Broken Criminal Justice System That No Longer Has the Trust of the Public’, The Telegraph (5 February 2023), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/05/steve-reed-have-broken-criminal-justice-system-no-longer-has/
16. Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke, ‘The Secretive Guru Who Plotted Keir Starmer’s Path to Power With Undeclared Cash’, Sunday Times (12 September 2023), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-prime-minister-morgan-mcsweeney-investigation-65fnh8zrt
17. Jonathan Rutherford, ‘What is Labour Together’, The New Statesman (15 November 2023), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2023/11/what-is-labour-together
18. I asked the New Statesman by email on two occasions for an opportunity to respond to the claim that my book was ‘conspiratorial’. They did not reply.
19. Asthana, Taken as Red, p.63-64
20. Rachel Wearmouth, ‘Morgan McSweeney: Labour’s Power Broker’, The New Statesman (16 November 2022), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2022/11/morgan-mcsweeney-labour-power-broker
21. A much more critical reading of McSweeney’s role in defeating the BNP is provided by Adam Bienkov. See: Adam Bienkov, ‘The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney’(17 May 2025), https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-founding-myth-of-morgan-mcsweeney
22. Wearmouth, ‘Morgan McSweeney: Labour’s power broker’, The New Statesman (16 November 2022), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2022/11/morgan-mcsweeney-labour-power-broker
23. Peter Edwards, ‘Mandelson: “I am working every day to bring down Jeremy Corbyn”, LabourList (21 February 2017), https://labourlist.org/2017/02/mandelson-i-am-working-every-day-to-bring-down-corbyn/
24. Asthana, Taken as Red, p. 60
25. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 27
26. Matt Pound. LinkedIn (accessed 12 December 2024), https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-pound-3b55838a/?originalSubdomain=uk
27. Matt Pound, ‘A Switch to All-member Meetings? Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea’, LabourList (23 October 2018), https://labourlist.org/2018/10/a-switch-to-all-member-meetings-heres-why-thats-a-bad-idea/
28. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 32
29. Asthana, Taken as Red, p. 64
30. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 32 - 35
31. Sky News Politics Team, ‘Anti-Corbyn Group Amasses £250,000 Fighting Fund’, Sky News (16 August 2016), https://news.sky.com/story/blairite-group-amasses-250-000-corbyn-fighting-fund-10539009
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33. Richard Partington, ‘Paul Myners, “Tower of Strength” in Financial Crisis, Dies Aged 73’, The Guardian (16 January 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/16/paul-myners-tower-of-strength-in-financial-crisis-dies-aged-73
34. Alex Ralph and Tom Saunders, ‘Business Donors Back Labour for First Time’, The Times (19 December 2022), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/business-donors-back-labour-for-first-time-c6xbl7lls
35. Henry Dyer, ‘Labour group with links to Keir Starmer fined £14,250 for failing to declare donations’, Business Insider (21 September 2021), https://www.businessinsider.com/keir-starmer-linked-labour-group-fined-14k-failure-declare-donations-2021-9?r=US&IR=T
36. See, for example, the Electoral Commission’s response to my original FOI Request numbered FOI-173-23 dated December 15, 2023, https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/FOI%20173-23%20-%20Response%20%28redacted%29.pdf
37. Electoral Commission. ‘Investigation: Momentum’ (accessed 6 March 2019), https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation/our-enforcement-work/investigations/investigation-momentum ;Electoral Commission. ‘Investigation: Vote Leave Ltd, Mr Darren Grimes, BeLeave and Veterans for Britain’ (accessed 7 May 2020, https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation/our-enforcement-work/investigations/investigation-vote-leave-ltd-mr-darren-grimes-beleave-and-veterans-britain
38. This is a requirement of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendum Act of 2000.
39. Electoral Commission response to my Freedom of Information request, FOI-166-23 (dated 15 December 2023), https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/FOI%20166-23%20-%20Response%20%28redacted%29.pdf
40. Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke, The Times (12 November 2023)‘The Secretive Guru Who Plotted Keir Starmer’s Path to Power With Undeclared Cash’
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42. Shabana Mahmood, ‘Your Questions Answered on Labour Together’s Review of the 2019 General Election Campaign’ (13 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/your-questions-answered-on-labour-togethers-review-of-the-2019-labour-general-election-campaign/
43. Three of the current biographers of the Starmer Project have repeated the story that Starmer was provided with detailed polling that Labour Together had undertaken of the membership. The polling was presented to Starmer at some point between June or July 2019, providing Starmer with an in-depth scan of the Labour memberhip’s views and opinions. The meeting at which McSweeney gave Starmer this briefing is also relayed as the moment at which McSweeney and Starmer began actively collaborating towards Starmer’s election as Labour leader.
Chapter 2: The Crisis
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2. Times of Israel Staff, ‘Document Lists 9 Instances of Anti-Semitism By Corbyn Among Thousands in Labour’, Times of Israel (5 December 2019), https://www.timesofisrael.com/document-lists-9-instances-of-anti-semitism-by-corbyn-among- thousands-in-labour/
3. This argument was made most forcefully in the joint statement released by the Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council in March 2018. See: ‘JewishLeaders’ Letter and Jeremy Corbyn’s Reply’, BBC News (26 March 2018), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43540795
4. Tim Shipman, ‘Labour Finds Way to Left Off “Anti-Semite” Allies of Jeremy Corbyn’, The Sunday Times (5 August 2018), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-finds-a-way-to-let-off-anti-semite-jeremy-corbyn-allies-vgmqq32mf
5. ‘Top Labour Figures “Interfered” in Anti-Semitism Disputes’, BBC (10 July 2019), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48929244
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7. See, for example, the joint statement of the Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies from March 2018, which stated that Corbyn had repeatedly sided with antisemites and that this ‘derives from the far left’s obsessive hatred of Zionism, Zionists and Israel’. ‘Jewish Leaders’ Letter and Jeremy Corbyn’s Reply’, BBC News (26 March 2018), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43540795
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Chapter 3: The Secret Projects
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50. Kerry-Anne Mendoza, ‘Guardian Columnist Calls for “Crowdfunded Assassination of Jeremy Corbyn [IMAGES]’, The Canary (22 September 2016), https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2016/09/22/guardian-columnist-calls-for-crowdfunded-assassination-of-jeremy-corbyn-images/
51. See, for example: Fréa Lockley, ‘Anti-Palestinian Activist and People With Far-Right Links Protest Outside Labour HQ’, The Canary (2 May 2019), https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2018/09/04/anti-palestinian-activist-people-far-right-links-protest-labour-hq/ ,
52. See, for example: Fréa Lockley, ‘Jewish Voice for Labour Accuses the BBC of Showing “Half-Truths, Distortions and Outright Invention”, The Canary (11 July 2019), https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/11/jewish-voice-for-labour-accuse-the-bbc-of-showing-half-truths-distortions-and-outright-invention/
53. Justice Nicklin, ‘Approved Judgment Between Rachel Riley and Laura Murray, [2021] EWHC 3437 (QB)’ (20 December 2021), https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Riley-v-Murray-judgment-201221.pdf
54. Tracy Keeling, ‘While All Eyes Were on Chequers, a TIG MP Travelled 3,000 Miles to Smear Jeremy Corbyn’, The Canary (25 March 2019), https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/03/25/while-all-eyes-were-on-chequers-a-tig-mp-travelled-3000-miles-to-smear-jeremy-corbyn/
55. Post by @BoardofDeputies on X (28 March 2019), https://x.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1111345302273970178
56. Post by @daverich1 on X (28 March 2019), https://x.com/daverich1/status/1111325439732133890
57. Community Security Trust . ‘Engine of Hate: The Online Networks Behind the Labour Party’s Antisemitism Crisis’ (4 August 2019), https://cst.org.uk/public/data/file/f/e/Engine%20of%20hate%20-%20The%20online%20networks%20behind%20the%20Labour%20party%27s%20antisemitism%20crisis%20WEB.pdf
58. Community Security Trust . ‘Engine of Hate: The Online Networks Behind the Labour Party’s Antisemitism Crisis’ (4 August 2019), https://cst.org.uk/public/data/file/f/e/Engine%20of%20hate%20-%20The%20online%20networks%20behind%20the%20Labour%20party%27s%20antisemitism%20crisis%20WEB.pdf
59. Rosa Doherty, ‘Labour’s Jewish Community Liason’s Twitter Was Part of Pro-Corbyn “Engine Room” Attacking Antisemitism Claims’, Jewish Chronicle (5 August 2019), https://www.thejc.com/news/labours-jewish-community-liaisons-twitter-was-part-of-pro-corbyn-engine-room-attacking-antisemitism-claims-yad7wr24
60. Post by @SFMisinfo on x (23 May 2019), https://x.com/SFMisinfo/status/1131476906568802305
61. Matt Taibbi and Paul D. Thacker, ‘Trump Camp: British Censorship Group to be “Investigated From All Angles”’, The Disinformation Chronicle (23 October 2024), https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/trump-camp-british-censorship-group
Chapter 4: The Campaign
1. Shabana Mahmood, ‘Your Questions Answered on Labour Together’s Review of the 2019 General Election Campaign’ (13 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/your-questions-answered-on-labour-togethers-review-of-the-2019-labour-general-election-campaign/
2. See, for example: Labour Together. ‘About’ (archived 26 February 2021), https://web.archive.org/web/20210226041834/https://www.labourtogether.uk/about
3. Labour Together. ‘What We Do’ (archived 3 April 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20230403112154/https://labourtogether.uk/what-we-do
4. Labour Together, ‘Homepage’ (archived 21 May 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20230521064909/https:/www.labourtogether.uk/
5. Post by @LabourTogether on X (2 April 2023), https://x.com/LabourTogether/status/1642437400839221248
6. The earliest date that Reed’s quote was deleted was December 1, 2023. However, no archived versions of the site were available between November 17, 2023, and December 1, 2023, so it is not possible to establish whether it was deleted only on December 1, 2023, or in the period between these two archival imprints. The earliest version of the site with Reed’s new quote is available at Labour Together. ‘Homepage’ (archived 1 December 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20231201183125/https:/www.labourtogether.uk/
7. Labour Together, ‘Red Shift: Labour’s Path to Power’ (2 April 2023), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d87070a60a6a39fefe87/1694685302745/Red+Shift++Labour%27s+Path+to+Power.pdf
8. Toby Helm, ‘Labour Will Be Tougher Than Tories on Benefits, Promises New Welfare Chief’, The Guardian (12 October 2013), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/12/labour-benefits-tories-labour-rachel-reeves-welfare
9. Amelia Gentleman, ‘Labour Vows to Reduce Reliance on Food Banks If It Comes to Power’, The Guardian (17 March 2015), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/17/labour-vows-to-reduce-reliance-on-food-banks-if-it-comes-to-power
10. Michael Savage, ‘Starmer Shifts Left in Attempt to Crowd Long-Bailey Out of Labour Contest’, The Guardian (2 February 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/02/starmer-labour-leadership-tax-pledge-long-bailey-corbyn
11. Peter Walker, Heather Stewart, and Jessica Elgot, ‘McDonnell: New Brexit Referendum Should Not Include Remain Option’, The Guardian (24 September 2018), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/24/mcdonnell-new-brexit-referendum-should-not-include-remain-option
12. Owen Bennett, ‘Keir Starmer Goes Rogue in Conference Speech, Refusing to Rule Out Remain in New Vote’, City A.M. (25 September 2018), https://www.cityam.com/keir-starmer-goes-rogue-conference-speech-he-says-no-one/
13. Martin Kettle, ‘Keir Starmer Launched an Unexpected Brexit Zinger—and It Hit the Spot’, The Guardian (25 September 2018), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/25/keir-starmer-brexit-zinger-labour-conference-remain-option-peoples-vote
14. Elliot Chappell, ‘The 60 Seats Labour Lost in the 2019 General Election’, LabourList (13 December 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/12/the-60-seats-labour-lost-in-the-2019-general-election/
15. Hannah O’Rourke, ‘Labour Together and the Lost Political Art of Bridge Building’, LabourList, LabourList (1 November 2022), https://labourlist.org/2022/11/labour-together-and-the-lost-political-art-of-bridge-building/
16. Benjamin Kentish, ‘Jeremy Corbyn Faces Fresh Challenge as Labour MPs Warn Party Cannot Win Through “Megaphone Populism”’, The Independent (3 June 2019), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-together-brexit-polls-european-elections-a8942411.html
17. Labour Together, ‘Statement’ (archived 17 June 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200617194958/https://www.labourtogether.uk/statement
18. Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, Left Out, p. 231
19. Tom Baldwin, Keir Starmer: The Biography (London: William Collins, 2024), p. 218–220, e-book.
20. Baldwin, Keir Starmer, p. 220 to 221
21. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 43
22. ‘Labour Together Failed to Declare £700k in Donations Amid Anti-Semitism Fears’, The Telegraph (28 February 2024), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/28/keir-starmer-labour-failed-declare-donations-amid-anti-semi/
23.‘Starmer Takes an Early Lead in Race for Corbyn’s Job’, Daily Mail (14 December 2019),
24. Keir Starmer. ‘Homepage’ (archived 21 December 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191221173338/https://keirstarmer.com/
25. Owen Jones, ‘Natalie Elphicke is a Hard-Right Tory. Her Defection Sums Up Labour’s Contempt for Progressive Voters’, The Guardian (8 May 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/natalie-elphicke-defect-labour-keir-starmer-conservatives
26. Keir Starmer, ‘Keir Starmer: It Won’t Be a Decade Before Labour Wins a General Election If We Unite’, The Mirror (4 January 2020), https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-wont-decade-before-21214682
27. Allessandra Scotto di Santolo, ‘Labour Even MORE Radical? Sir Keir Starmer Pledges to Build on Corbyn’s “Foundation”’, Express (11 January 2020), https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1227124/labour-leadership-sir-keir-starmer-campaign-launch-manchester-jeremy-corbyn-manifesto
28. Allessandra Scotto di Santolo, ‘Labour Even MORE Radical? Sir Keir Starmer Pledges to Build on Corbyn’s “Foundation”’, Express (11 January 2020), https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1227124/labour-leadership-sir-keir-starmer-campaign-launch-manchester-jeremy-corbyn-manifesto
29. Jennifer Williams, ‘“We Were Describing the Present Instead of the Future”—Labour Hopeful Keir Starmer on Loss, Leadership and Class Warfare’, Manchester Evening News (12 January 2020), https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/keir-starmer-labour-party-leadership-17553263
30. Sophia Sleigh, ‘Keir Starmer Urges Members to Stop Trashing Labour’s Record in Government’, The Standard (24 February 2020), https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-labour-government-stop-trashing-a4369766.html
32. ‘Labour Leadership Hustings Live from Liverpool’, Labour Party on Youtube (18 January 2022), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s746wYFz5Gg
33. ‘The Sun Says: It’s Time For a Change’, The Sun (3 July 2024), https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28935096/its-time-for-a-change/
34. Hollie Richardson, ‘Labour Leadership Frontrunner: “I’m Not Doing This For Women, I’m Doing It With Them”, Stylist (2020), https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-race-frontrunner-policies-exclusive-interview/360979
35. Toby Helm, ‘Keir Starmer’s Team Are Confident—But Expect a Rival’s Surge’, The Guardian (12 January 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/11/keir-starmer-labour-party-leadership-free-market-corbyn-years
36. Peter Walker, ‘Keir Starmer Sets Out Vision for Labour to Win Back Power’, The Guardian (15 January 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/15/keir-starmer-sets-out-vision-for-labour-to-win-back-power
37. Heather Stewart, ‘Keir Starmer: Labour Should Argue For Return of Free Movement’, The Guardian (31 January 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/31/keir-starmer-labour-should-argue-for-return-of-free-movement-brexit
38. Peter Walker, ‘Labour Leadership Poll Opens as Keir Starmer Promises Jobs to Rivals’, The Guardian (25 February 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/24/labour-leadership-poll-opens-keir-starmer-jobs-rivals
39. Keir Starmer, ‘Reform and Unite’ (archived 21 February 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200221234244/https://keirstarmer.com/plans/reformandunite/
40. Keir Starmer, ‘Reform and Unite’ (archived 21 February 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200221234244/https://keirstarmer.com/plans/reformandunite/
41. Labour Together, ‘Belonging’ (archived 13 April 2019 ), https://web.archive.org/web/20190429084254/https://www.labourtogether.uk/belonging
42. Laura Parker, ‘Laura Parker: Why I’m Backing Keir Starmer For Labour Leader’, LabourList, LabourList (19 February 2020) https://labourlist.org/2020/02/laura-parker-why-im-backing-keir-starmer-for-labour-leader/
43. Jessica Elgot, Rowena Mason, and Peter Walker, ‘Starmer’s Speech to Show Focus Is on Winning, Rather Than Unity’, The Guardian (28 September 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/28/dont-mention-the-corbs-starmers-conference-speech-to-ignore-corbyn
44. Chris Curtis, ‘Keir Starmer Comfortably Leads Labour Leader Race’, YouGov (2 January 2020), https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/27106-keir-starmer-comfortably-leads-labour-leader-race
45. George Parker, ‘Labour Frontrunner Keir Starmer Targets Rank-and-File Members’, Financial Times (12 January 2020), https://www.ft.com/content/2e74f69e-3529-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3cba4
46. Kate Proctor and Heather Stewart, ‘Rebecca Long-Bailey Calls on Rivals to Back Public Wwnership’, The Guardian (29 January 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/29/rebecca-long-bailey-calls-on-rivals-to-back-public-ownership
47. Electoral Reform Society, ‘Keir Starmer: “We’ve Got to Address the Fact That Millions of People Vote in Safe Seats and They Feel Their Vote Doesn’t Count”’ (31 January 2020), https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/keir-starmer-weve-got-to-address-the-fact-that-millions-of-people-vote-in-safe-seats-and-they-feel-their-voice-doesnt-count/
48. ‘Exclusive: Keir Starmer Sets Out Plan to Abolish House of Lords’, The Red Robin (28 January 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20210127224022/https://www.theredrobin.scot/exclusive_keir_starmer_sets_out_plan_to_abolish_house_of_lords
49. Keir Starmer, ‘My Pledges to You’ (archived 21 February 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200221233655/https://keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledges/
50. Peter Walker, ‘Labour to Ditch Its Promise to Abolish Tuition Fees in England’, the Guardian (2 May 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/02/labour-to-ditch-its-promise-to-abolish-tuition-fees-in-england-keir-starmer
51. Mark Brown and Heather Stewart, ‘Starmer Says He Won’t Be “Ideological” Amid Renationalisation Row’, The Guardian (25 July 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/25/starmer-says-he-wont-be-ideological-labour-renationalisation-row
52. Keir Starmer, ‘Starmer Writes: Teachers Are Being Badly Let Down’, TES Magazine (18 February 2020), https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/starmer-writes-teachers-are-being-badly-let-down
53. Phillip Inman and Peter Walker, ‘Labour rules out raising corporation tax above 25% in next Parliament’, The Guardian (1 February 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/01/labour-rules-out-raising-corporation-tax-above-25-in-next-parliament
54. Melisa Cavcic, ‘Legal Storm to Hit Rosebank as UK’s Historic Ruling Brings Emissions From Burning Oil & Gas Into Play’, Offshore Energy (20 June 2024), https://www.offshore-energy.biz/legal-storm-to-hit-rosebank-as-uks-historic-ruling-brings-emissions-from-burning-oil-gas-into-play/
55. Hollie Richardson, ‘Labour Leadership Frontrunner: “I’m Not Doing This For Women, I’m Doing It With Them”, Stylist (2020), https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-race-frontrunner-policies-exclusive-interview/360979
56. Jim Pickard, ‘Labour Delays Plans to Abolish House of Lords’, Financial Times (4 February 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/e7935e2e-acd9-4f61-bc6d-f0b3b5c07357
57. Alistair Grant, ‘Keir Starmer: SNP will have Indyref2 mandate if it wins 2021 Holyrood election’, The Herald (28 January 2020), https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18192697.keir-starmer-snp-will-indyref2-mandate-wins-2021-holyrood-election/
58. Keir Starmer, ‘“A Socially Just Scotland in a Modern United Kingdom”—Starmer’s Full Fpeech’, LabourList (10 January 2021), https://labourlist.org/2020/12/a-socially-just-scotland-in-a-modern-united-kingdom-starmers-full-speech/; Scott Macnab, ‘SNP Told to Ditch Plans For Independence Referendum By Keir Starmer’, The Scotsman (10 January 2021), https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-told-to-ditch-plans-for-independence-referendum-by-sir-keir-starmer-3091103
59. Post by @Keir_Starmer on X (13 February 2020), https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1227878854183792642
60. Dominic McGrath, ‘Self-ID Not “the Right Way Forward” for Gender Recognition Reform—Starmer’, The Standard (26 July 2023), https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-bbc-radio-5-live-government-snp-kane-b1096844.html,
61. ‘“I’m Pragmatic About It”: Starmer Denies Labour Would Nationalise Energy Firms’, Guardian News on YouTube (26 September 2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyL6iaNLEoY
62. Post by @alexnunns on X (19 January 2022), https://x.com/alexnunns/status/1483810333244416007
63. ‘Keir Starmer on the Andrew Neil Show’, Lee Harris Media on Youtube (4 March 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWIfkPw_R4
64. Sienna Rodgers, ‘What does Keir Starmer Mean by a “Prevention of Military Intervention Act?”’, LabourList (12 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/what-does-keir-starmer-mean-by-a-prevention-of-military-intervention-act/
65. Aletha Adu, ‘Keir Starmer Defends Stance on Military Action and Saudi Arms Sales’, The Guardian (14 January 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/14/keir-starmer-defends-stance-on-military-action-and-saudi-arms
Chapter 5: The Real Keir Starmer
1. Oliver Eagleton, The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right (London: Verso, 2021), p. 28, Kindle Edition.
2. Fiona Bawdon, Paul Lewis, and Tim Newburn, ‘Rapid Riot Prosecutions More Important Than Long Sentences’, The Guardian (3 July 2012), https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/03/riot-prosecutions-sentences-keir-starmer
3. Fiona Bawdon, ‘England Riots: All-Night Courts Praised, But Were They a Publicity Stunt?’ The Guardian (22 December 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/dec/22/england-riots-all-night-courts
4. Carly Lightowlers and Hannah Quirk, ‘The 2011 English “Riots”: Prosecutorial Zeal and Judicial Abandon’, British Journal of Criminology, Volume 55, No. 1 (18 October 2014), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu081
5. Fiona Bawdon and Owen Bowcott, ‘Riot Sentencing Put “Nice Kids” Behind Bars, Lawyers Say’, The Guardian (3 July 2012), https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/03/riot-sentencing-nice-kids-lawyers
6. Bawdon and Bowcott, ‘Riot Sentencing Put “Nice Kids” Behind Bars, Lawyers Say’, The Guardian (3 July 2012), https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/03/riot-sentencing-nice-kids-lawyers
7. Tim Newburn, ‘Disaster Averted But Questions Remain Over Courts’ Response to Riots’, The Guardian (3 July 2012), https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/03/questions-remain-court-response-riots
8. ‘Public Disorder—August 2011 Guidance for Prosecutors on Charging Public Order and other offences’, CPS, https://web.archive.org/web/20111102232326/https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/public_disorder-guidance_for_prosecutors_on_charging_public_order_and_other_offences(august_2011)/ , 10 November 2011 (originally posted August 2011)
9. Nadine El-Enany, ‘Keir Starmer’s Troubling Guidelines on Protestor Prosecution’, The Guardian (7 March 2012), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2012/mar/07/keir-starmer-guidelines-protester-prosecution
10. Shiv Malik, ‘Anti-Cuts Protestor Gets 12-month Sentence or Throwing Sticks at Police’, The Guardian (8 July 2011), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/08/anti-cuts-protest-fernie-sentence
11. Oliver Eagleton, The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right (London: Verso, 2021), p. 33, Kindle Edition.
12. Duncan Campbell, ‘British Prosecutors Could Save Hacker From Extradition to US’, The Guardian (12 January 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/12/gary-mckinnon-extradition-computer-hacker
13. Duncan Campbell, ‘British Prosecutors Could Save Hacker From Extradition to US’, The Guardian (12 January 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/12/gary-mckinnon-extradition-computer-hacker
14. John Leyden, ‘Judge Grants McKinnon Extradition Review’, The Register (23 January 2009), https://www.theregister.com/2009/01/23/mckinnon_extradition_review/
15. Tom Espiner, ‘NASA Hacker Wins Right to Appeal Against Extradition’, CNET (24 January 2009), https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/nasa-hacker-wins-right-to-appeal-against-extradition/
16. Sam Marsden, ‘Hacker Loses Latest Extradition Battle’, The Independent (26 February 2009), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacker-loses-latest-extradition-battle-1632929.html
17. Duncan Campbell, ‘UK Hacker Faces US Trial for Breaking into Defence Department System’, The Guardian (26 February 2009), https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/feb/26/hacker-mckinnon-faces-us-trial
18. ‘Theresa May Statement on Gary McKinnon Extradition’ (16 October 2012), https://www.gov.uk/government/news/theresa-may-statement-on-gary-mckinnon-extradition
19. Boris Johnson, ‘Gary McKinnon Believes in Little Green Men—But It Doesn’t Make Him a Terrorist’, The Telegraph (26 January 2009), https://web.archive.org/web/20090130123556/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/4348617/Gary-McKinnon-believes-in-little-green-men---but-it-doesnt-make-him-a-terrorist.html
20. Owen Bowcott and Ewan MacAskill, ‘Sweden Tried to Drop Assange Extradition in 2013, CPS Emails Show’, The Guardian (11 February 2018), https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-to-drop-assange-extradition-in-2013-cps-emails-show
21. See, for example: Ewan MacAskill and Owen Bowcott, ‘UK Prosecutors Admit Destroying Key Emails in Julian Assange Case,’ The Guardian (10 November 2017), https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/10/uk-prosecutors-admit-destroying-key-emails-from-julian-assange-case
22. ‘Julian Assange Subjected to Psychological Torture, UN Expert Says,’ BBC News (31 May 2019), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48473898
23. Richard Osley, ‘Labour List Editor Criticises “Apolitical” Starmer’, Camden New Journal (30 January 2020), https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/labour-list-editor-criticises-apolitical-starmer
24. Camden Momentum, ‘Sir Keir is Making an Opportunistic Tilt to the Left’, Islington Tribune (17 January 2020), https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/sir-keir-is-making-an-opportunistic-tilt-to-the-left
25. Camden Momentum, ‘Sir Keir is Making an Opportunistic Tilt to the Left’, Islington Tribune (17 January 2020), https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/sir-keir-is-making-an-opportunistic-tilt-to-the-left
26. Michael Ashcroft, Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer, (Hull: Biteback Publishing, 2020), p. 209, Kindle Edition.
27. Iain McNicol, ‘Corbynism Must End with Corbyn’, Financial Times (11 January 2020), https://www.ft.com/content/d452464e-3398-11ea-a329-0bcf87a328f2
28. Post by @owenjonesjourno on X (5 January 2023), https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1611038345424928778
29. Post by @jrc1921 on X (28 July 2022), https://x.com/jrc1921/status/1552646387891781633
Chapter 6: Democracy Dies in Darkness
1. ‘His Labour Leadership Campaign for Labour Leader Is Off to a Slick Start—but the Real Keir Starmer Remains Elusive’, New Statesman (10 January 2020), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2020/01/his-labour-leadership-campaign-slick-start-real-keir-starmer-remains-elusive
2. Heather Stewart, ‘Keir Starmer Had No Enemies. Can He Keep It That Way?’ The Guardian (27 March 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/27/keir-starmer-profile-labours-non-aligned-leadership-frontrunner; David Renton, ‘Keir Starmer’s past is coming under scrutiny. What can we learn from it?’, The Guardian (16 February 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/keir-starmer-past-scrutiny
3. David Renton, ‘Keir Starmer’s past is coming under scrutiny. What can we learn from it?’, The Guardian (16 February 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/keir-starmer-past-scrutiny
4. Kiran Stacey, ‘How Leading the CPS Changed Keir Starmer—While He Changed It’, The Guardian (21 December 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/21/keir-starmer-cps-analysis
5. Stop Funding Fake News, ‘Homepage’ (archived 12 June 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200612071315/https:/www.stopfundingfakenews.com/
6. Termination of a Director Appointment Filing for Center for Countering Hate Limited (company number 11633127), Morgan McSweeney (filed 4 May 2020). https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11633127/filing-history/MzI2Mzg2NzU1NmFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
7. Tom Coburg, ‘Evidence Offered to Prove That Murdered Democrat Insider Was WikiLeaks Sources’, The Canary (23 May 2017), https://www.thecanary.co/global/2017/05/23/evidence-offered-prove-murdered-us-democrats-insider-wikileaks-source-video/
8. Tom Coburg, ‘If These Latest Allegations are True, Trump’s Days as President May Be Numbered’, The Canary (2 August 2017), https://www.thecanary.co/global/2017/08/02/latest-allegations-true-trumps-days-president-may-numbered-video-tweet/
9. Emily Apple, ‘Today I Found Out My Friend Was an Undercover Cop, and I Had to Discover It on a Website’, The Canary (1 May 2018), https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2018/05/01/today-i-found-out-my-friend-was-an-undercover-cop-and-i-had-to-discover-it-on-a-website/
10. Emily Apple, ‘A Message to Anyone Thinking of Voting for Keir Starmer in the Labour Leadership Race’, The Canary (8 January 2020), https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2020/01/08/a-message-to-anyone-thinking-of-voting-for-keir-starmer-in-the-labour-leadership-race/
11. Afroze Fatima Zaidi, ‘Keir Starmer Really Doesn’t Want to Answer Question About This Labour Leadership Campaign Team’, The Canary (12 January 2020), https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/01/12/keir-starmer-really-doesnt-want-to-answer-questions-about-his-labour-leadership-campaign-team/; Steve Topple, ‘Corbyn Just Urged Keir Starmer to Publish His Donor List’, The Canary (28 February 2020), https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/02/28/corbyn-just-urged-keir-starmer-to-publish-his-donor-list/ ; Peadar O’Cearnaigh, ‘We’ve just heard the most tone-deaf reason for voting for Keir Starmer and Rosena Allin-Khan’, The Canary (28 February 2020), https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/02/28/weve-just-heard-the-most-tone-deaf-reason-for-voting-for-keir-starmer-and-rosena-allin-khan/; Ed Sykes, ‘Gordon Brown—the Failed Politician Who Bailed Out Banks Rather Than Ordinary People—Backs Keir Starmer’, The Canary (5 March 2020), https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/05/gordon-brown-the-failed-politician-who-bailed-out-banks-rather-than-ordinary-people-backs-keir-starmer/
12. Donation data taken from the Electoral Commission website, https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk//
13. Data accessed from the Electoral Commission website, https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/
14. Rowena Mason, ‘Keir Starmer Challenged to Publish All Campaign Donations’, The Guardian (3 March 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/03/keir-starmer-challenged-to-publish-all-campaign-donations,
15. Heather Stewart, ‘Keir Starmer: Andrew Neil and Long-Bailey Keep Up Donation Pressure’, The Guardian (4 March 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/04/keir-starmer-andrew-neil-and-long-bailey-keep-up-donation-pressure
16. This final donation was made by a local constituent and amounted to £5,000. It was made after the leadership election had concluded. It was recorded in Starmer’s parliamentary declarations as a donation toward his leadership campaign.
17. CJ Mckinney, ‘Doughty Street Veteran Donates a Cool £100k to Former Chamber Mate Keir Starmer’s Labour Leadership Campaign’, Legal Cheek (5 March 2020), https://www.legalcheek.com/2020/03/doughty-street-veteran-donates-a-cool-100k-to-former-chamber-mate-keir-starmers-labour-leadership-campaign/
18. Post by @evolvepolitics on X (30 March 2020), https://x.com/evolvepolitics/status/1244674789350014981
19. Marie Woolf, ‘Focus: It Could Be a Week When Blair Needs His Friends’, The Independent (26 September 1998), https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/focus-it-could-be-a-week-when-blair-needs-his-friends-1200968.html
20. Arj Singh, ‘Starmer Hires Blairite TV Mogul Waheed Ali to Lead Fundraising as Labour Gets on War Footing’, The I Paper (8 November 2022), https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-hires-waheed-alli-labour-general-election-fundraising-1959680
21. ‘Keir Starmer on the Andrew Neil Show’, Lee Harris Media on Youtube (4 March 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SWIfkPw_R4
22. ‘LABOURLIST LIMITED filing history’, Companies House (accessed 14 August 2025), https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06996133/filing-history
23. ‘LABOURLIST LIMITED filing history’, Companies House (accessed 14 August 2025), https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06996133/filing-history
24. Daniel Jackson, ‘How You Can Be Part of Labour Together’s Election Review, LabourList (18 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/how-you-can-be-a-part-of-labour-togethers-election-review/
25. Elliot Chappell, ‘Labour Together Launches Commission to Learn From 2019 Election’, LabourList (23 December 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/12/labour-together-launches-commission-to-learn-from-ge-2019/
26. Elliot Chappell, ‘Labour Together Launches Commission to Learn From 2019 Election’, LabourList (23 December 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/12/labour-together-launches-commission-to-learn-from-ge-2019/
27. Hannah O’Rourke, ‘Labour Together: Our Party Must Find the Humility to Listen and Learn’, LabourList (27 December 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/12/labour-together-our-party-must-find-the-humility-to-listen-and-learn/
28. Elliot Chappell, ‘Labour Together Launches Commission to Learn From 2019 Election’, LabourList (23 December 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/12/labour-together-launches-commission-to-learn-from-ge-2019/
29. Elliot Chappell, ‘Labour Together Launches Commission to Learn From 2019 Election’, LabourList (23 December 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/12/labour-together-launches-commission-to-learn-from-ge-2019/
30. ‘Labour Together Extends Deadline on Review Survey as Over 10,000 Take Part, LabourList (18 February 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200927062349/https:/electionreview.labourtogether.uk/foreword/how-this-report-was-created
31. ‘How This Report Was Created’, Labour Together Election Review (27 September 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200927062349/https://electionreview.labourtogether.uk/foreword/how-this-report-was-created
32. Analysis of Labour Together Election Review Online Survey, Report from the Campaign Company (March 2020)
33. Shabana Mahmood, ‘Your Questions Answered on Labour Together’s Review of the 2019 General Election Campaign’ (13 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/your-questions-answered-on-labour-togethers-review-of-the-2019-labour-general-election-campaign/
34. Shabana Mahmood, ‘Your Questions Answered on Labour Together’s Review of the 2019 General Election Campaign’ (13 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/your-questions-answered-on-labour-togethers-review-of-the-2019-labour-general-election-campaign/
35. Labour Together (@labourtogether), post on X, https://x.com/LabourTogether/status/1642437402470891521
36. Labour Together, ‘Homepage’ (archived 21 May 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20230521064909/https:/www.labourtogether.uk/
37. Shabana Mahmood, ‘Your Questions Answered on Labour Together’s Review of the 2019 General Election Campaign’ (13 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/your-questions-answered-on-labour-togethers-review-of-the-2019-labour-general-election-campaign/
38. ‘Labour Together Extends Deadline on Review Survey as over 10,000 Take Part’, (18 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/labour-together-extends-deadline-on-review-survey-as-over-10000-take-part/
39. Daniel Jackson, ‘How you can be part of Labour Together’s election review’, op cit.
Chapter 7: No Rest for the Wicked
1. Rajeev Sal, ‘Keir Starmer Poised to be Announced New Labour Leader’, The Guardian (3 April 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/03/keir-starmer-poised-to-be-announced-new-labour-leader
2. Len McLuskey, Always Red (New York: OR Books, 2021), p.334, Kindle Edition.
3. McLuskey, Always Red, p. 334
Chapter 8: Inheritance
1. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 40
2. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 40
3. Heater Stewart, ‘Tom Watson urges Corbyn to get a grip on Labour “crisis”’, The Guardian (24 February 2019), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/24/tom-watson-corbyn-needs-to-understand-labour-must-change-antisemitism-crisis
4. ‘Is Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Anti-Semitic? A BBC Investigation,’ BBC Panorama on Youtube (12 July 2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Qq_M_0RaE
5. Labour Party response to Panorama programme, Labour Press (10 July 2019), https://labour.org.uk/press/labour-party-response-panorama-programme/. The Labour Party also further alleged that ‘the Panorama team pre-determined an answer to a question posed by the programme’s title’ and also noted that the party had complained about Ware’s role as presenter. They accused Ware of expressing ‘overt personal and political hostility to Jeremy Corbyn’s politics’.
6. Toby Helm, Michael Savage, and Stefan Boscia, ‘Whistleblowers to Sue Labour as Antisemitism Row Deepens’, The Guardian (13 July 2019), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/13/whistleblowers-to-sue-labour-as-antisemitism-row-deepens
7. At a JLM hustings during the leadership contest, for example, the presence of the ‘whistleblowers’ was acknowledged and applauded. BBC journalist Robert Peston, hosting the event, pressed all contenders on whether they would settle with the ‘whistleblowers’, the strong unspoken inference being that the ‘whistleblowers’ were totemic heroes in the fight against Labour Party antisemitism.
8. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’ (19 July 2022), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Forde-Report.pdf, p. 37.
9. ‘The Labour Files: The Crisis, Episode 2’, Al Jazeera on Youtube (25 September 2022), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTMF0MSXng, [1:11:20]
10. BBC Corrections and Clarifications: Archive 2022, ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ Panorama, BBC One, (10 July 2019), https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive-2022
11. Richard Sanders, ‘Labour Racism Report Author Rejected BBC Request to Remove Criticism of Panorama’, Middle East Eye (16 March 2023), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-antisemitism-forde-rejected-remove-bbc-panorama-criticism
12. Richard Sanders, ‘Labour Racism Report Author Rejected BBC Request to Remove Criticism of Panorama’, Middle East Eye (16 March 2023), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-antisemitism-forde-rejected-remove-bbc-panorama-criticism
13. ‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019’ (April 2020), p. 13
14. ‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019’ (April 2020), p. 13
15. ‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019’ (April 2020), p. 13
16. ‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019’ (April 2020), p. 13
17. ‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019’ (April 2020), p. 621
18. Additional evidence of arguably unprofessional conduct towards female staff was found in the language used to attack Karie Murphy, which was particularly loaded. Oldknow frequently called her Medusa, another staffer claimed her ‘face would make a good dartboard,’ while Heneghan called her a ‘bitch-face cow.’ In one exchange about women working in LOTO, Oldknow commented of Murphy that ‘Karie is actually fat too. There’s a good old [roll] in that photo.’ When Tracey Allen piped in to say that Oldknow didn’t hate Murphy because she was fat, but because Murphy was ‘horrible,’ a short tongue-in-cheek discussion included comments of how some ‘chubby’ people were still likeable. Oldknow, conceding the point, still concluded, ‘And she is fat.’ Another staffer joined the conversation to add, ‘As the Smiths said some girls are bigger than other girls. Except Katy and Kary who are just hideous and sour.’
19. In March 2017, for example, in response to news that three senior LOTO staffers had left, Heneghan commented that ‘Steve needs to be next out’. On April 22, 2017, in the immediate aftermath of May’s announcement, Heneghan asked whether there was a way to block Howell from joining group calls. In response to the group call that then took place, Emily Oldknow wrote of Howell: ‘he is ridiculous’. At the end of April, participants in the Senior Management Team WhatsApp group responded angrily to an email sent by Howell raising issues with how staff at Southside were behaving. ‘Twat’, was Heneghan’s response. Five days later, during another campaign meeting, Heneghan and Tracy Allen, McNicol’s assistant, provided the SMT group with live running commentary. ‘Fuck you Steve’, Heneghan wrote. ‘He is appalling’, Allen commented. And after a strategy meeting in May, McNicol piped up on SMT to comment that ‘Steve was shit’, with which Oldknow agreed: ‘Absolutely shit’.
20. The spreadsheet set out allocations of funding by seat. The spreadsheet set out how each seat would receive three categories of funding: a baseline amount of £2,000 for staffing, which was then boosted at the discretion of the party machinery (this total was simply called ‘Round 1’, but constituted a short-term allocation that had to be spent by candidates on election collateral by May 3); an amount set aside to pay for a ‘self-mailer’ (a pamphlet campaign sent by post) paid from the party’s central election funds; and an allocation of funds to be used on Promote, the party’s internal software used to purchase and place social media advertising.
21. A majority of candidates (but by no means all) listed on the spreadsheet received at least a small amount of core ‘Round 1’ funding. But only seventeen MPs received funding allocations for the mailer paid by HQ or the discretionary social media spending.
22. The seventeen MPs who received the ‘self-mailer’ or Promote allocations (or both) were: Gloria De Piero (married to a senior figure in Tom Watson’s office, and revealed by the leaked WhatsApp chats to be a favourite of HQ), Margaret Beckett, Jonathan Ashworth (the husband of Emily Oldknow and now the head of Labour Together), Heidi Alexander, Chuka Umunna, Angela Eagle, Liam Byrne, Shabana Mahmood (later to play a role in Labour Together), Tom Watson, Khalid Mahmood, Emma Reynolds, Pat McFadden, Rosie Winterton, Rachel Reeves (another Labour Together MP), Yvette Cooper, and Keir Starmer.
23. In early April 2017, the party’s polling and analysis team put together a list of all seats held by the Labour Party and shared this data with Patrick Heneghan. The analysis assigned every seat held by the party a code ranging from D1 to D5. ‘D’ meant ‘defensive’. Seats classified D5 were the least threatened, while those classified D1 were the most threatened. Starmer’s constituency of Holborn and St Pancras was classified D5. In fact, none of the seventeen seats awarded the two categories of discretionary funding were classified D1 or D2.
The amounts allocated to these seventeen figures were extraordinary in the context of the party’s straitened finances. In total, the spreadsheet set out expenditure of £1,739,000, which covered the entire party. Of this, £316,000 was allocated to just these seventeen MPs. So, 18 percent of the Labour Party’s entire allocation at this stage was set aside for just 7 percent of its MPs. Even as Starmer’s Holborn and St Pancras seat was safe, classified D5 and predicted to achieve a 9 percent majority according to polling from mid-April, his constituency was allocated £10,000 to pay for his election mailer and a further £3,000 to spend on Promote. Jeremy Corbyn, by comparison, received literally nothing at all—not even a baseline allocation—even though his seat, also a D5, was predicted to have a smaller margin of victory than Starmer: only 1 percent.
24. Heneghan claims the instructions were delivered by Karie Murphy in a meeting on May 19, 2017. According to Heneghan, Murphy provided him during that meeting with a ‘hitlist’ of individuals that LOTO wanted funding removed from, as well as a list of left-wing MPs she wanted the party to fund. Murphy threatened Heneghan, he claimed, with a hit-piece on the website Skwawkbox if he declined to follow her instructions. Murphy has denied the allegations that she instructed or threatened Heneghan.
Heneghan further claims that Corbyn’s team was unwilling to face the realities of dire polling. Their approach to campaigning would lead the party to ruin, he argued, pointing his finger at Steve Howell. In a response that Heneghan would later write to the party trying to avoid suspension, he was explicit that ‘we agreed that we could not simply pull support away from seats based on Karie’s factional view. We agreed to continue to support seats on the basis of getting the most possible MPs elected. In order to do this, we had to move a number of staff and resources to Ergon House’.
25. Patrick Heneghan, ‘Labour’s 2019 Campaign and the Myth of the Stab in the Back’, Patrick Heneghan - Blog (26 August 2020), https://patrick91053.wixsite.com/website/post/labour-s-2017-campaign-and-the-myth-of-the-stab-in-the-back
26. The spending on the Ergon House scheme, from this point, was allocated to the spending code GEL001.
27. Steve Howell, ‘Don’t Let Labour’s Right Do Any More Wrecking—Steve Howell’, Labour Outlook (19 August 2020), https://labouroutlook.org/2020/08/19/dont-let-labours-right-do-any-more-wrecking-steve-howell/
28. In one LSE study that assessed the data for the 2017 general election, it was found that turnout was increased by 4.6 percent where voters received some form of contact from a campaign, with particularly strong evidence of the effect of leafleting. See: Joshua Townsley, ‘Do Party Leaflets and Canvas Visits Increase Voter Turnout?’ London School of Economics blog (10 October 2018), https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/do-party-leaflets-and-canvass-visits-increase-turnout/
29. On May 29, while Howell was being denied additional funds, a Labour staffer emailed Patrick Heneghan, Simon Mills, and Andrew Coulson. Mills, as noted, was the most senior financial executive in the party; Coulson was his junior. The staffer informed ‘Simon/Andrew’ that the budget code being used by Matthews (GEL001) needed a budget increase to £175,000. Coulson responded shortly thereafter confirming ‘budget increased to £175,000’. Matthews was thus being allocated additional funds just as Howell was being told only £50,000 was available. The staffer forwarded the email confirming the budget increase to Sam Matthews and other staffers, including the party’s head of print services, Gillian Barry. ‘See below from Andrew Coulson increasing the budget to £175k ‘, he wrote. Even with this increase, staff fretted that Matthews would need more money.
30. On the afternoon of the 29th, Geldard emailed Heneghan, Mills, Matthews, and two other staffers asking for a budget catch-up the following day ‘as we think we will need to move more money into GEL001’. The following day, Harry Gregson wrote to Mills, Heneghan, Coulson, and Geldard with the subject line ‘staffing budget to GEL001’. Suggestions were made as to how unspent money from other budgets could be moved into GEL001. ‘I think that will give Sam what he needs’, Geldard commented, confirming that it was explicitly known that the budget increases to the GEL001 code were to facilitate Matthews’ printing plan. Mills approved the request: ‘Ok, we will amend’, Mills commented.
31. A spreadsheet distributed by Coulson to Mills on June 12 showed that a total of £225,852 had been allocated to GEL001, against which a total of £135,014 had been committed or spent. Not all of this £135,014 would have been spent on Ergon House, as it appears that the budget code became something of a catch-all for a range of expenses in the earliest phases of the campaign.
32. Geldard sent an email to Sam Matthews with a ‘priority list’ for ‘DCHAIRS’. This was likely a reference to Deck Chairs, itself a reference to how staffers jokingly called the Ergon House scheme the ‘Deck Chair Realignment Society.’ This was a play on ‘shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic’.
33. The ten constituencies (and their MPs) on the DCHAIRS list were Ashfield (Gloria de Piero), Don Valley (Caroline Flint), Wolverhampton North East (Emma Reynolds), Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), Wakefield (Mary Creagh),Bradford South (Judith Cummins), Derby South (Margaret Beckett), Stoke-on-Trent North (Ruth Smeeth), Penistone and Stocksbridge (Angela Smith)
34. The following table sets out the ten individuals in the DCHAIRS list and their 2015 and 2017 votes:
Constituency (individual)
2015 Vote (Majority)
2017 Vote (Majority)
Ashfield (Gloria de Piero)
19,448 (8,820)
21,285 (441)
Don Valley (Caroline Flint)
19,621 (8,885)
24,531 (5,169)
Wolverhampton North East (Emma Reynolds)
15,669 (5,495)
19,282 (4,587)
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper)
25,213 (15,429)
29,628 (14,499)
Wakefield (Mary Creagh)
17,301 (2,613)
22,987 (2,176)
Bradford South (Judith Cummins)
16,328 (6,450)
22,364 (6,700)
Derby South (Margaret Beckett)
20,007 (8,828)
26,430 (11,248)
Stoke-on-Trent North (Ruth Smeeth)
15,429 (4,836)
21,272 (2,359)
Penistone and Stockbridge (Angela Smith)
19,691 (6,723)
22,807 (1,322)
35. As noted above, the total amount allocated to the budget code GEL001 was £225,852, of which £135,014 was spent. Some of this was spent on materials seemingly unrelated to Ergon House. However, internal budget documents show that, under the GEL001 code, certain spending was recorded with the descriptor ‘Sam Matthews Key Seats Printing’. The internal budget documents show 35 entries under this descriptor, with all invoices being raised by Potts Print, which provided printing services to the Labour Party. In total, £47,209.19 was recorded against these entries (inclusive of VAT).
36. I was able to establish this in the following way. First, I consulted the party’s internal accounting spreadsheets, including a sheet distributed in August 2017 and then again in November 2017. These workbooks set out the details of spending by the party’s HQ during the general election. This included spending entered against the GEL001 spending code. Second, I identified every amount spent against the descriptor ‘Sam Matthews Key Seats Printing’ as this was clearest evidence of spending incurred by the Ergon House scheme. Every entry under this descriptor referred to an invoice raised where spending was incurred. Every spending item, according to the worksheet, paid for services provided by Potts Print. Potts Print is a printing house used frequently by the party. Third, I then searched through the Electoral Commission’s Party spending register for every invoice submitted as Labour Party spending for invoices raised by Potts Print. In doing so, I identified an invoice dated June 7, 2017 from Potts Print. The invoice amount was for £7,359.99. This matched, exactly, an entry under the ‘Sam Matthews Key Seats Printing’ for the same amount. The Electoral Commission record is available to view here: Electoral Commission record: Statement of Individual Payment (SP0349390), https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Spending/SP0349390 The underlying invoice, raised by Potts Print, is available to view here: Invoice: Potts Print to Labour Party (7 June 2017), https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Spending/Invoices/21472
37. I suspect that Ruth Smeeth was the ultimate beneficiary of this amount because the spending, here, referred to Individual Electors Letters, and Geldard’s May 30 email had identified Smeeth (in Stoke-on-Trent North) as a priority ‘DCHAIRS’ recipient for precisely this sort of material. Geldard’s DCHAIRS list did not identify any other MPs or constituencies in Stoke to receive Individual Electors Letters in this email.
38. I established this by asking for the spending returns for the seven constituencies, which was duly provided to me by the Electoral Commission under a Freedom of Information request.
39. This was also the description used in the invoice raised by Potts Print
40. There are two circumstantial pieces of evidence that raise suspicions that these were the sort of materials that should have been declared locally. First, at the very time that Sam Matthews was sending out the GOTV materials, he received text of a flyer to be printed for Yvette Cooper. These were then sent by Matthews to Potts Print with a subject line referring to Individual Electors Letters. Emails show the flyer text had been written by Yvette Cooper herself. The text makes it clear that this was a letter being written directly from Yvette Cooper to her constituents explaining why she, personally, deserved their votes—the essence of local spending. However, Yvette Cooper was not on the £7,359 Potts Print invoice, so I don’t know if this flyer was ultimately printed, and, if so, how it might have been paid for. But there is no doubt that it was sent to Potts at the same time as the other GOTV materials, with a subject line referencing the Individual Electors Material, and in the same packaged format as other ‘Individual Electors Letters’ that did appear on the Potts Print invoice. Second, social media searches also uncovered pictures of a mailed flyer sent on behalf of Mary Creagh. The flyer text shows it was printed by Potts Print, while the social media posts indicate it was delivered by post shortly after May 30. The flyer features a smiling Creagh on her constituency letterhead. The text urged people to vote for her notwithstanding any qualms they might have had about Labour’s national leadership: ‘That’s why, whatever your misgivings about the Labour leadership, I hope that you will consider voting for me as your local MP. I am independent minded and put Wakefield first’.
Chapter 9: Containment and Cover-Ups
1. The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism, 2014-2019, March 2020, p. 401
2. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 40
3. 1 Crown Office Row, ‘Martin Forde KC Profile’, https://www.1cor.com/london/barristers/martin-forde-kc/
4. Sienna Rodgers, ‘Labour’s Ruling Body Appoints Panel to Investigate Leaked Report’, LabourList (1 May 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/05/labours-ruling-body-appoints-panel-to-investigate-leaked-report/
5. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’ (19 July 2022), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Forde-Report.pdf, paragraph A3.1
6. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’ (19 July 2022), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Forde-Report.pdf, p. 66
7. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’ (19 July 2022), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Forde-Report.pdf, p. 6
8. My use of these messages will no doubt lead to a chorus of complaints about privacy. But this is misplaced. These were not messages sent between users private accounts. Instead, they were messages sent via Skype for Business, which was integrated into the Party’s Microsoft Outlook professional package. The messages were exchanged in a discreet window in Microsoft Outlook. This is material because the Skype accounts employees were using were registered against the Labour Party email addresses, while the messages were sent via the Outlook interface set up by the Party for its staff to conduct its business. The messages were thus akin to work emails, as they were sent directly between Party staff and saved on the Party servers against their email addresses.
9. Lisa O’Carroll and Jessica Elgot, ‘Labour Pays Out Six-Figure Sum and Apologises in Antisemitism Row’, The Guardian (22 July 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/22/labour-pays-out-six-figure-sum-and-apologises-in-antisemitism-row
10. ‘An Apology From the Labour Party to John Ware’, Labour Party Press Release (archived 24 July 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200724155050/https://labour.org.uk/press/an-apology-from-the-labour-party-to-john-ware/
11. ‘An Apology From the Labour Party to John Ware’, Labour Party Press Release (archived 24 July 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200724155050/https://labour.org.uk/press/an-apology-from-the-labour-party-to-john-ware/
12. An Apology From the Labour Party to Kat Buckingham, Michael Creighton, Samuel Matthews, Dan Hogan, Louise Withers Green, Benjamin Westerman and Martha Robinson, Labour Party Press Release, 22 July 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20230407030640/https://labour.org.uk/press/an-apology-from-the-labour-party-to-kat-buckingham-michael-creighton-samuel-matthews-dan-hogan-louise-withers-green-benjamin-westerman-and- martha-robinson/
13. Rachel Wearmouth, ‘Exclusive: Labour Reinstates Ex-Officials Suspended Over “Leaks” Dossier’, Huffington Post (2 February 2021), https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-party-officials-suspended-reinstated-leaked-report_uk_6017f097c5b6bde2f5c14cff
14. Peter Walker, ‘Labour Pays Estimated £2m to Settle Claims by 20 People Over Leaked Antisemitism Dossier’, The Guardian (30 July 2025), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/30/labour-settles-claims-leaked-antisemitism-dossier
Chapter 10: No, Not Those Whistleblowers
1. ‘New Appointments at UKLFI’ (1 April 2018), https://www.uklfi.com/new-appointments
2. ‘New appointments at UKLFI Limited’ (11 October 2019), https://www.uklfi.com/new-appointments-at-uklfi-limited-and-uklfi-charitable-trust
3. CMP, ‘Workplace Investigation’, https://www.cmpsolutions.com/investigation/,
4. Rianna Croxford, ‘Labour Staff “Gagged” Over Sexual Harassment Claims’, BBC (2 April 2020), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60940971
5. Aubrey Allegretti, ‘Labour Women Urge Party Not to Use NDAs For Sexual Harassment Allegations’, The Guardian (4 April 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/04/labour-women-urge-party-not-to-use-ndas-for-sexual-harassment-allegations
6. Aletha Adu, ‘Labour Costs Pass £500,000 in Hearing Over Leaked Antisemitism Report’, The Guardian (31 August 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/31/labour-costs-pass-500000-in-lawsuit-over-leaked-antisemitism-report
Chapter 11: Travesty—The EHRC Report and the Starmer Project
1. Peter Walker, ‘Keir Starmer: EHRC Antisemitism Report Is a Day of Shame for Labour’, The Guardian (29 October 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/29/keir-starmer-ehrc-report-day-of-shame-labour-antisemitism
2. Jessica Elgot, ‘Antisemitism Inquiry Is Labour’s Most Shameful Moment, Says Senior MP’, The Guardian (28 October 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/28/antisemitism-inquiry-is-labours-most-shameful-moment-says-senior-mp-jonathan-ashworth
3. Elliot Chappell, ‘Keir Starmer: “A Day of Shame for the Labour Party”, LabourList (29 October 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/10/keir-starmer-a-day-of-shame-for-the-labour-party/
4. Kate Proctor, ‘Equalities Watchdog Drops Plan for Tory Islamophobia Inquiry’, The Guardian (12 May 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/12/equalities-watchdog-drops-plan-for-tory-islamophobia-inquiry
5. Haroon Siddique, ‘Former Race Lead Sues EHRC for Race Discrimination’, The Guardian (1 October 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/01/former-race-lead-sues-ehrc-for-race-discrimination
6. Haroon Siddique, ‘UK Equality Watchdog Refuses to Allow Staff to Speak Up on Race, Tribunal Hears’, The Guardian (4 October 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/uk-equality-watchdog-refuses-to-allow-its-staff-to-speak-up-on-race-tribunal-hears
7. Haroon Siddique, ‘UK Equality Watchdog Refuses to Allow Staff to Speak Up on Race, Tribunal Hears’, The Guardian (4 October 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/uk-equality-watchdog-refuses-to-allow-its-staff-to-speak-up-on-race-tribunal-hears
8. Peter Walker and Jessica Elgot, ‘Labour Responsible for Harassment and Discrimination, EHRC Antisemitism Inquiry Finds’, The Guardian (29 October 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/29/labour-accused-of-harassment-and-discrimination-in-antisemitism-inquiry
9. Haroon Siddique, ‘EHRC Board Member Under Scrutiny Over Social Media Use’, The Guardian (30 November 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/30/ehrc-board-member-under-scrutiny-over-social-media-use
10. Haroon Siddique, ‘EHRC Board Member Under Scrutiny Over Social Media Use’, The Guardian (30 November 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/30/ehrc-board-member-under-scrutiny-over-social-media-use
11. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 5
12. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p.69
13. The ambiguous phrasing of the EHRC’s report make this a difficult knot to untie. But there is at least inferential evidence that the EHRC was, in fact, referring to the June 2019 refusals. In particular, at page 68 of the report, the EHRC stated, in relation to the WhatsApp messages revealed in the Leaked report, that ‘the Labour Party did not volunteer these messages (such as WhatsApp messages and personal emails) when we requested relevant personal communications regarding antisemitism complaints. The Labour Party informed us that it would be disproportionate and too onerous to provide this material to us. However, as indicated above, it appears that a vast amount of this material was collated for the preparation of the Labour Party’s own leaked report’. Of course, as noted in the body text, the EHRC had never requested the personal communications of the staff members included in the SMT and LP Forward Planning Groups by name.
14. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p.5
15. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 118
16. Lucy Fisher, ‘Five “Race Hate” Dossiers on Councillors Are Handed to Labour in Antisemitism Row’, Sunday Times (3 April 2018), https://www.thetimes.com/article/five-race-hate-dossiers-on-councillors-are-handed-to-labour-in-antisemitism-row-7gxtgj08n; Gabriel Pogrund and Richard Kerbaj, ‘“Anti-semitic Conspiracy Theory” Councillor Returns to Labour Party Ranks’, Sunday Times (7 April 2019), https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/pm-accuser-returns-to-party-ranks-x3h807lph
17. IPSO, ‘Resolution Statement 03262—19 Bromley v The Sunday Times’ (19 September 2019), https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/03262-19/
18. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 25
19. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 23
20. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 112
21. The EHRC cited, in its discussion of agents and the availability of a ‘reasonable steps’ defence, two pieces of precedent. Strikingly, one of those cases cited noted the anomalous situation wherein a ‘reasonable steps’ defence was available to employers in relation to employees but not available to so-called ‘principals’ with regards to their agents. The EHRC appears not to acknowledge that the precedent it cited already raised questions about this unexplained distinction between employers and principals and the availability of the defence. Lord Justice Underhill, writing in Unite the Union and Sally Nailard (A/2016/3912), stated that ‘I acknowledge that it is an apparent anomaly that the reasonable steps defence is not available to principals as regards the acts of their agents when it is available to employers as regards the acts of their employers’. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/1203.html
22. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 109
23. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf
24. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 42
25. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p.52-53
26. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 55
Chapter 12: The Purge Lists
1. Allessandra Scotto di Santolo, ‘Labour Even MORE Radical? Sir Keir Starmer Pledges to Build on Corbyn’s “Foundation”’, Express (11 January 2020), https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1227124/labour-leadership-sir-keir-starmer-campaign-launch-manchester-jeremy-corbyn-manifesto
2. Board of Deputies of British Jews, ‘Board of Deputies Submits Briefing to Labour on Unresolved Antisemitism Cases’ (19 May 2020), https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-of-deputies-submits-briefing-to-labour-on-unresolved-antisemitism-cases/
3. Lee Harpin, ‘Revealed: Starmer’s Blueprint to Reform Labour Following EHRC Antisemitism Report’, Jewish Chronicle (18 June 2020), https://thejc.com/news/revealed-starmers-blueprint-to-reform-labour-following-ehrc-antisemitism-report-mc84hz95
4. Lee Harpin, ‘Revealed: The Lawyer at the Centre of Starmer’s Efforts to Tackle Labour’s Antisemitism Problem’, Jewish Chronicle (29 June 2020), https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/revealed-the-lawyer-at-the-centre-of-starmer-s-efforts-to-tackle-labour-s-antisemtism-problem-1.501110
5. Close readers will note that the headline of the actual article was ‘Revealed: the lawyer at the centre of Starmer’s efforts to tackle Labour’s antisemitism problem.’ But, on the front page of the Chronicle website, the full article headline was not provided. Instead, a brief summary line was provided (‘revealed: Starmer’s antisemitism enforcer’), through which readers to click through to the full article
6. Jessica Elgot, ‘“Disgusting”: Labour Fury Over Return of Chris Williamson’, The Guardian (26 June 2019), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/26/chris-williamson-back-in-labour-party-after-antisemitism-remarks
7. Asa Winstanley, ‘Revealed: The Israel Lobby’s Labour Hit List’, The Electronic Intifada (20 November 2020), https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/revealed-israel-lobbys-labour-hit-list
Chapter 13: The Suspension of Jeremy Corbyn
1. Labour Party, ‘Keir Starmer’s Statement in Response to EHRC’s Report Into Anti-Semitism’ (29 October 2020), https://labour.org.uk/press/keir-starmers-statement-in-response-to-ehrcs-report-into-anti-semitism/
2. Post by Jeremy Corbyn on Facebook (29 October 2020), https://www.facebook.com/330250343871/posts/my-statement-following-the-publication-of-the-ehrc-reportantisemitism-is-absolut/10158939532253872/
3. Post by @lbc on X (10 July 2019), https://x.com/LBC/status/1149031265569390592
4. Peter Walker and Josh Halliday, ‘Starmer Says Corbyn Could Have Predicted Suspension for EHRC Response’, The Guardian (30 October 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/30/labour-keir-starmer-disappointed-jeremy-corbyn-response-ehrc-antisemitism-report
5. Post by @alexnunns on X (1 November 2020), https://x.com/alexnunns/status/1322886257215709185
6. Post by @alexnunns on X (1 November 2020), https://x.com/alexnunns/status/1322886291168612354
7. Equality and Human Rights Commission, ‘Investigation Into Antisemitism in the Labour Party’ (October 2020), https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/investigation-into-antisemitism-in-the-labour-party.pdf, p. 50-51
8. Chapter four of the EHRC’s investigation set out a reconstruction of what the EHRC determined to be the elements of complaints handling system, using this discussion to preview its finding that the formal complaints mechanism did not include any role for LOTO. This Chapter also made no role for the General Secretary’s Office in complaints handling. In fact, the only appropriate people identified as being involved in complaints handling were GLU staff and the members of the NEC and NCC complaints panels that heard and adjudicated complaints based on investigative reports from GLU.
9. Post by @alexnunns on X (1 November 2020), https://x.com/alexnunns/status/1322886257215709185; Oliver Eagleton, ‘Here’s What Really Happened When Labour Suspended Corbyn’, Novara Media (27 July 2021), https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/27/heres-what-really-happened-when-starmer-suspended-corbyn/; Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 121-124
10. McLuskey, Always Red, p. 337-338
11. Labour Party, ‘Keir Starmer’s Statement in Response to EHRC’s Report Into Anti-Semitism’ (29 October 2020), https://labour.org.uk/press/keir-starmers-statement-in-response-to-ehrcs-report-into-anti-semitism/
12. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 87
13. Lee Harpin, ‘Corbyn Readmitted to Labour Following Suspension’, Jewish Chronicle (17 November 2020), https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/corbyn-readmitted-to-labour-following-suspension-1.508756
14. Harpin, ‘Corbyn Readmitted to Labour Following Suspension’, Jewish Chronicle https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/corbyn-readmitted-to-labour-following-suspension-1.508756
15. ‘Jewish UK Labour Lawmaker Vows to See Corbyn Ousted’, The Times of Israel (3 September 2018), https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-uk-labour-lawmaker-vows-to-see-corbyn-ousted/
16. Lisa O’Carroll, ‘Jewish Labour Movement Condemns Corbyn’s Readmission’, The Guardian (17 November 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/17/jewish-labour-movement-condemns-corbyn-readmission
17. Post by @Keir_Starmer on X (18 November 2020), https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1329017094529314817
18. Heather Stewart and Jessica Elgot, ‘Labour in Fresh Turmoil as Starmer Refuses to Restore Whip to Corbyn’, The Guardian (18 November 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/18/labour-in-fresh-turmoil-as-starmer-refuses-to-restore-whip-to-corbyn
Chapter 14: The Principles of Natural (In)Justice
1. Labour Party, ‘Publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Report into Allegations of Antisemitism in the Labour Party—Guidance for CLPS’ (29 October 2020), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Publication-of-the-Equality-and-Human-Rights-Commission-final.pdf
2. Elliot Chappell, ‘Local Parties Warned Against Passing Motions on Disciplinary Cases, LabourList (5 November 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/11/exclusive-local-parties-warned-against-passing-motions-on-disciplinary-cases/
3. Elliot Chappell, ‘Motions on Corbyn Whip Suspension “Will Be Ruled Out of Order”, Local Parties Told’, LabourList (26 November 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/11/motions-on-corbyn-whip-suspension-will-be-ruled-out-of-order-local-parties-told/
4. Jessica Elgot, ‘Labour MPs and Members Ordered Not to Discuss Corbyn’s Suspension’, The Guardian (27 November 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/labour-mps-and-members-ordered-not-to-discuss-corbyns-suspension
5. Sienna Rodgers, ‘Rayner Warns “Thousands” of Labour Members May Be Suspended From Party’, LabourList (29 November 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/11/rayner-says-thousands-of-labour-members-may-be-suspended-from-party/ ,
6. The Labour Party Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2019, https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/22602
7. The Labour Party Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2020, https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/22905
8. The Labour Party Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2021, https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk//Api/Accounts/Documents/24331
9. Katie Neame and Tom Belger, ‘Labour Has Lost 170,000 Members Since 2018–but 50,000 Have Joined in a Year,’ LabourList (2 June 2023), https://labourlist.org/2023/06/labour-party-members-numbers-membership-how-many-big/
10. Toby Helm, ‘Labour Membership Falls By 23,000 Over Gaza and Green Policies’, The Guardian (30 March 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/labour-membership-falls-by-23000-over-gaza-and-green-policies
11. George Parker and Jim Pickard, ‘Labour Party is Now “Pro-Business”, Vows Rachel Reeves’, Financial Times (19 January 2022), https://www.ft.com/content/ac897020-d165-46c3-8cb9-a76bcde5c2f7
12. Daniel Green, ‘Membership down 11% since election as Labour Loses a Member Every 10 Minutes’, LabourList (5 February 2025), http://labourlist.org/2025/02/labour-party-membership-drop-since-general-election
13. Tom Belger, ‘Labour Goes Quiet on Membership Data After LabourList Reports Falling Numbers’, LabourList (23 May 2025), https://labourlist.org/2025/05/labour-membership-numbers-members-how-many-political-party/
14. Lee Harpin, ‘Revealed: The Lawyer at the Centre of Starmer’s Efforts to Tackle Labour’s Antisemitism Problem’, Jewish Chronicle (29 June 2020), https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/revealed-the-lawyer-at-the-centre-of-starmer-s-efforts-to-tackle-labour-s-antisemtism-problem-1.501110
15. ‘The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance and Legal Unit in Relation to Antisemitism,’ (April 2020), p. 704
16. Labour Muslim Network, ‘Islamophobia and the Muslim Experience: The Labour Party Report’ (November 2020), https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/app/uploads/2020/12/LMN-IslamophobiaReport-Nov20-VFinal.pdf, p. 10
17. ‘Labour Allows Former Councillor Who Called Muslim Colleague “Jezbollah” to Rejoin Party’, The Skwawkbox (29 August 2021), https://skwawkbox.org/2021/08/29/labour-allows-former-councillor-who-called-muslim-colleague-jezbollah-to-rejoin-party/
18. Neha Goli, ‘Windrush Victim Says Home Office “Waiting for Us to Die Off” Before Paying Compensation’, The Guardian (1 April 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/windrush-victim-home-office-waiting-for-us-to-die-off-compensation
19. Jonathan Cook, ‘Corbyn Was Never Going to Get a Fair Hearing in the EHRC Antisemitism Report’ (5 November 2020), https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2020-11-05/equalities-commission-labour-antisemitism/ ,
20. Jonathan Cook, ‘How the EHRC Antisemitism Report Added Fire to Labour’s Simmering Civil War’, Middle East Eye (5 November 2020), https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ehrc-labour-antisemitism-civil-war-fire-added
21. Open Secrets, ‘Dame Margaret Hodge MP—a Very British Apartheid Profiteer’, Daily Maverick (20 November 2019), https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-20-dame-margaret-hodge-mp-a-very-british-apartheid-profiteer/ ,
22. Written evidence submitted on behalf of The Board of Deputies of British Jews, ‘Economic Activity of Overseas Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill’ (6 September 2023), https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmpublic/EconomicActivityPublicBodies/memo/EAPBB26.htm
23. Written evidence of the Jewish Leadership Council, ‘Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill’ (6 September 2023), https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmpublic/EconomicActivityPublicBodies/memo/EAPBB19.htm
24. Adam Shaw, ‘London Labour Councillor Expelled Over Interview With Socialist Newspaper’, MyLondon (22 November 2021), https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/london-labour-councillor-expelled-over-22236947
25. Jewish Voice for Labour, ‘Annex 3. Targeting of Jewish members of the Labour Party’ (7 February 2023), https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/02/Targeting-of-Jewish-members-of-the-Labour-Party.pdf
26. Jewish Voice for Labour, ‘Annex 3. Targeting of Jewish members of the Labour Party’ (7 February 2023), https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/app/uploads/2023/02/Targeting-of-Jewish-members-of-the-Labour-Party.pdf
Chapter 15: The Hierarchy
1. Nadine White, ‘Exclusive: Labour is Losing Black Members Over Allegations of Anti-Black Racism’, Huffington Post (2 June 2020), https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/leaked-labour-report-sees-black-voters-quit-party-over-final-straw_uk_5ea70e55c5b6a30004e62cc0
2. Tom Wall, ‘The Day Bristol Dumped Its Hate Slave Trader in the Docks and a Nation Began to Search Its Soul’, The Guardian (14 June 2020), www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/14/the-day-bristol-dumped-its-hated-slave-trader-in-the-docks-and-a-nation-began-to-search-its-soul
3. ‘When Starmer Referred to Black Lives Matter “Moment”’, BBC (2 July 2020), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-53269453
4. Vikram Dodd, ‘Met Police Found to Be Institutionally Racist, Misogynistic and Homophobic’, The Guardian (21 March 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report
5. Vikram Dodd, ‘Met Police Found to Be Institutionally Racist, Misogynistic and Homophobic’, The Guardian (21 March 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report
6. Peter Walker, ‘Keir Starmer: Pulling Down Edward Colston Statue Was Wrong’, The Guardian (8 June 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/08/keir-starmer-edward-colston-bristol-statue-wrong
7. ‘Edward Colston Statue: Four Cleared of Criminal Damage’, BBC News (5 January 2022), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-59727161
8. Oliver Eagleton, ‘The Inside Story of Keir Starmer’s Farcical Diversity Audit’, Novara Media (3 November 2021), https://novaramedia.com/2021/11/03/the-inside-story-of-keir-starmers-farcical-diversity-audit/
9. Post by @Gabriel_Pogrund on X https://x.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1222194566868193280
10. Joe Locker, ‘Popular Community Hub Shuts Amid Claims Labour Party Removed Local Group’s Access to Bank Account’, Notts TV (22 August 2023), https://nottstv.com/popular-community-hub-shuts-amid-claims-labour-party-removed-local-groups-access-to-bank-account/
11. Ian Lavery, ‘In Defence of Community Organising’, Tribune (6 February 2020), https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/02/in-defence-of-community-organising
12. Labour Together, ‘Election Review: 2019’, https://www.labourtogether.uk/s/Labour-Together-2019-Election-Review-final.pdf, p. 146-47
13. Post by @Gabriel_Pogrund on X (3 February 2021), https://x.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1356944232414670849
14. Aditya Chakrabortty and Jessica Elgot, ‘Leak Reveals Labour Plan to Focus on Flag and Patriotism to Win Back Voters’, The Guardian (2 February 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/labour-urged-to-focus-on-flag-and-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals
15. Aditya Chakrabortty and Jessica Elgot, ‘Leak Reveals Labour Plan to Focus on Flag and Patriotism to Win Back Voters’, The Guardian (2 February 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/labour-urged-to-focus-on-flag-and-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals
16. Amnesty International UK, ‘UK: Amnesty issues stark warning over Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill’(24 September 2020), https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-amnesty-issues-stark-warning-over-covert-human-intelligence-sources-criminal
17. Report by the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights, ‘Black People, Racism and Human Rights: Perceptions of Human Rights in Black Community’ (11 November 2020), https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5801/jtselect/jtrights/559/55905.htm
18. Post by @zarahsultana on X (5 October 2020), https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1313247985128681473?s=20
19. Kate Osborne, ‘Why I Voted Against the Spy Cops Bill’, Tribune (6 October 2020), https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/10/why-i-voted-against-the-spy-cops-bill
20. Labour Muslim Network, ‘Labour Muslim Network Islamophobia Survey—Results 2022’ (14 March 2022), https://www.labourmuslims.org/post/labour-muslim-network-islamophobia-poll-results-2022
21. Labour Muslim Network, ‘Islamophobia and the Muslim Experience: The Labour Party Report’ (November 2020), https://www.labourmuslims.org/islamophobia
22. Damien Gayle, ‘Over Half of Muslim Labour Members “Do Not Trust the Party to Tackle Islamophobia”’, The Guardian (14 November 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/14/over-half-muslim-labour-members-do-not-trust-party-to-tackle-islamophobia
Chapter 16: The Newham Dossier
1. Jon King, ‘Labour Suspends East Ham and West Ham Constituency Parties’, Newham Recorder (12 March 2021), https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/21413112.labour-suspends-east-ham-west-ham-constituency-parties/
2. Post by @hzeffman on X (12 March 2021), https://x.com/hzeffman/status/1370460530486435845
3. ‘Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales Deselected After 23 Years’, BBC (16 March 2018), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43421313
4. The Labour Files: The Hierarchy, Episode 3’ Al Jazeera on Youtube (27 September 2022), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cHBQf5z_M
5. The Labour Files: The Hierarchy, Episode 3’ Al Jazeera on Youtube (27 September 2022), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cHBQf5z_M
6. ‘NEC Update, March 2021’, Ann Black on the Record (17 March 2021), https://www.annblack.co.uk/nec-update-march-2021/
Chapter 17: When Anna Rothery Met the Starmer Machine
1. See, for example, statements put out by Operation Black Vote, ‘Labour Decision to Scrap All-Woman Shortlist Greeted With Disappointment’ (archived 22 October 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20231022022111/https://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/labour-decision-scrap-all-woman-shortlist-greeted-disappointment
2. Liam Thorp, ‘Councillor Promises “Clean Break and Shakeup” If She Becomes Next Mayor of Liverpool’, Liverpool Echo (3 February 2021), https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/councillor-promises-clean-break-shakeup-19758772
3. Liam Thorp, ‘Sitting Liverpool Labour councillors OUT as Momentum Takes Charge in City’, Liverpool Echo (5 October 2018), https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sitting-liverpool-labour-councillors-out-15241026
4. David Bartlett, ‘Labour Councillor Prodded in Head in [sic] by Fellow Labour Politician in Town Hall Row’, Liverpool Echo (3 May 2013), https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/labour-councillor-prodded-head-fellow-3381565
5. Casemine, ‘Judgment in Rothery v Evans’ (8 March 2021), https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/604ee3592c94e0610fcfb978
Chapter 18: Hacking of Inside Croydon
1. Walter Cronxite, ‘Brick by Brick Hires Firm Which Has Butler’s Son on Staff’, Inside Croydon (24 July 2018), https://insidecroydon.com/2018/07/24/brick-by-brick-hires-firm-which-has-butlers-son-on-staff/
2. Walter Cronxite, ‘Brick by Brick Hires Firm Which Has Butler’s Son on Staff’, Inside Croydon (24 July 2018), https://insidecroydon.com/2018/07/24/brick-by-brick-hires-firm-which-has-butlers-son-on-staff/
3. Walter Cronxite, ‘Grassroots Labour Party Members in Call to Sack Evans’, Inside Croydon (20 November 2020), https://insidecroydon.com/2020/11/20/grassroots-labour-party-members-in-calls-to-sack-david-evans/
4. Tom Coburg, ‘A Labour Group Linked to Starmer Is Under Investigation By the Electoral Commission’, The Canary (20 February 2021), https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2021/02/20/a-labour-group-linked-to-starmer-is-under-investigation-by-the-electoral-commission/
Chapter 19: Batley and Spen, and the Battle for Survival
1. “Keir Starmer: A New Chapter for Britain’ (18 February 2021), Labour Party on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM1C7jclKU0
2. Steven Brown, ‘Peston Dismantles Starmer’s Blueprint for UK Recovery—“Not sure about his big idea!”’, Express (18 February 2021), https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1399519/robert-peston-itv-news-sir-keir-starmer-labour-party-covid-recovery-bond-boris-johnson
3. Jon Stone, ‘Labour Hartlepool By-Election Candidate Said Saudi Arabia Was “Modern and Progressive” After Going on £8,700 Trip Paid for by Regime’, The Independent (19 March 2021), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hartlepool-by-election-paul-williams-saudi-arabia-b1819597.html
4. Laura Nolan, ‘Labour Candidate Accused of Being “Hospital Hypocrite” Over Report Which Recommended CUTTING Services’, The Northern Echo (19 April 2021), https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19243345.labour-candidate-accused-hospital-hypocrite-report-recommended-cutting-services/
5. Jack Peat, ‘Starmer Pledges to “Change the Things That Need Changing”’, The London Economic (7 May 2021), https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/starmer-pledges-to-change-the-things-that-need-changing-268505/
6.Hannah Rodger, ‘Former Hartlepool MP Peter Mandelson Says Labour Loss “About Corbyn Not Brexit”’, The Herald (7 May 2021), https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19285749.former-hartlepool-mp-peter-mandelson-says-labour-loss-about-corbyn-not-brexit/
7. Andrew Grice, ‘Is Angela Rayner’s Admission About Keir Starmer the Honesty Labour Needs to Win Back the Red Wall’, The Independent (12 May 2021), https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/angela-rayner-keir-starmer-labour-voters-red-wall-b1846262.html
8. Andrew Woodcock, ‘Keir Starmer Must Go for Labour to Become Electable, Says Lord Adonis’, The Independent (7 May 2021), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-lord-adonis-labour-b1843774.html
9. Luke Farley, ‘Batley and Spen Showed How Labour Has Gone Backwards Under Starmer’, Tribune (9 July 2021), https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/batley-and-spen-made-it-clear-that-labour-needs-to-change
10. ‘Keir Starmer Accused of Undermining Muslims Over Iftar Cancellation’, Middle East Eye (28 April 2021), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-labour-keir-starmer-iftar-cancellation-petition-islamophobia
11. ‘Keir Starmer Accused of Undermining Muslims Over Iftar Cancellation’, Middle East Eye (28 April 2021), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-labour-keir-starmer-iftar-cancellation-petition-islamophobia
12. Maya Wolfe-Robinson, ‘Galloway Bid for Batley and Spen Seat Mired in Intimidation Claims’, The Guardian (1 July 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/01/galloway-bid-for-batley-and-spen-seat-mired-in-intimidation-claims
13. Dan Hodges, ‘Whose Spreading the Poison That Could Put the Final Nail in Keir Starmer’s Coffin?’, Daily Mail (19 June 2021), www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9704175/DAN-HODGES-Whos-spreading-the-poison-final-nail-keir-starmers-coffin.html ,
14. Aditya Chakrabortty, ‘Keir Starmer, Your Party Has a Whole New Race Problem,’ The Guardian (7 July 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/07/keir-starmer-labour-muslim-voters-red-wall-islamophobia
15. Haroon Siddique, ‘Labour Lifts Trevor Phillips’ Suspension for Alleged Islamophobia,’ The Guardian (6 July 2021), www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/06/labour-lifts-trevor-phillips-suspension-for-alleged-islamophobia
16. Maya Wolfe-Robinson, Peter Walker, and Heather Stewart, ‘Starmer Hails Labour Revival After Kim Leadbeater Wins Batley and Spen’, The Guardian (2 July 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/02/labour-candidate-kim-leadbeater-wins-batley-and-spen-byelection
17. Haroon Siddique, ‘Labour Lifts Trevor Phillips’ Suspension For Alleged Islamophobia’, The Guardian (6 July 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/06/labour-lifts-trevor-phillips-suspension-for-alleged-islamophobia
18. Trevor Phillips, ‘The Decision to Put A Five-Year-Old Christian Girl Into Muslim Foster Care is Like Child Abuse and the Council Must Pay’, The Sun (31 August 2017), https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4357747/trevor-phillips-christian-girl-muslim-foster-care-like-child-abuse/
19. Dr Martyn Frampton, Sir John Jenkins, and Khalid Mahmood, ‘The Trial: The Strange Case of Trevor Phillips,’ (London: Policy Exchange, 2020), https://labourlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Trial-the-strange-case-of-Trevor-Phillips-MR.pdf
20. Haroon Siddique, ‘Labour Lifts Trevor Phillips’ Suspension for Alleged Islamophobia,’ The Guardian (6 July 2021), www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/06/labour-lifts-trevor-phillips-suspension-for-alleged-islamophobia
21. Judge Goodman, ‘Judgment in Employment Tribunal Case No 2204585/2022, Claimant: Halima Khan, Respondent: The National Executive Committee of the Labour Party’ (7 August 2024), https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66c5d5eecbe60889bddd27b9/Ms_H_Khan_v_The_National_Executive_Committee_of_the_Labour_Party_-_2204585-2022_.pdf ,
22. Ibid
Chapter 20: In the Ascendancy
1. Tom Kibasi, ‘Keir Starmer’s Leadership Needs an Urgent Course Correction’, The Guardian (16 February 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/16/keir-starmer-leadership-urgent-course-correction-labour
2. David Bond, ‘John McDonnell Leads Rivals Mocking Keir Starmer’s “Sermon on the Mount” Plans for Labour Party’, The Standard (23 September 2021), https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-sermon-mount-plans-labour-party-essay-john-mcdonnell-b956895.html
3. William Davies, Rafael Behr, Ash Sarkar, and Caroline Molloy, ‘The Verdict on Keir Starmer’s Vision Statement for Labour, The Road Ahead’, The Guardian (23 September 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/23/keir-starmer-labour-road-ahead-centre-fabian-society
4. A useful guide to all motions passed at conference was provided in Elliot Chappell’s ‘Labour Conference 2021: The Content of Every Policy Motion and How It Passed’, LabourList (5 October 2021), https://labourlist.org/2021/10/labour-conference-2021-the-content-of-every-policy-motion-and-how-it-passed/
5. Elliot Chappell, ‘Labour Conference Passes Young Labour Israel and Palestine <otion’, LabourList (27 September 2021), https://labourlist.org/2021/09/labour-conference-passes-young-labour-israel-and-palestine-motion/
6. Lee Harpin, ‘Lisa Nandy: Labour leadership “Cannot Support Pro Palestine Motion” at Conference’, Jewish News (27 September 2021), https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/lisa-nandy-labour-cannot-support-pro-palestine-motion-at-conference1/
7. Steven Downes, ‘“Beyond Farce” as Labour Purges Veteran Croydon Official’, Inside Croydon (24 September 2021), https://insidecroydon.com/2021/09/24/beyond-farce-as-labour-purges-veteran-croydon-official/
8. Steven Downes, ‘“Beyond Farce” as Labour Purges Veteran Croydon Official’, Inside Croydon (24 September 2021), https://insidecroydon.com/2021/09/24/beyond-farce-as-labour-purges-veteran-croydon-official/
9. ‘White Has No Case to Answer After 10-Week Suspension’, Inside Croydon (14 July 2016), https://insidecroydon.com/2016/07/14/white-has-no-case-to-answer-after-10-week-suspension/,
10. ‘White’s Labour Expulsion Overturned: “Process is Corrupt”’, Inside Croydon (20 February 2025), https://insidecroydon.com/2025/02/20/whites-labour-expulsion-overturned-process-is-corrupt/,
Chapter 21: Tory Implosion and the Acceleration of the Starmer Project
1. Calculated based on YouGov polling data, https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/rishi-sunak-prime-minister-approval
2. ‘England local election results 2023’, BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2023/england/results
3. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’ (19 July 2022), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Forde-Report.pdf, p. 26
4. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 43–45
5. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 7
6. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 112
7. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 62
8. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 37
9. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 5
10. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 82
11. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’, p. 90
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13. Adam Langleben, ‘OPINION: The Good, the Overreach and the Preposterous of the Labour’s Forde Report’, Jewish News (19 July 2022), https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-good-the-overreach-and-the-preposterous-of-the-labours-forde-report/
14. Stephen Pollard, ‘The Dreadful Forde Report Completely Misses the Point About Labour Antisemitism’, Capx (20 July 2022), https://capx.co/the-dreadful-forde-report-completely-misses-the-point-about-labour-antisemitism/
15. I Stephen Pollard, ‘The Dreadful Forde Report Completely Misses the Point About Labour Antisemitism’, Capx (20 July 2022), https://capx.co/the-dreadful-forde-report-completely-misses-the-point-about-labour-antisemitism/
16. ‘Labour’s Shameful Response to the Forde Report’, Truth Defence (29 July 2022), https://truthdefence.org/labours-shameful-response-to-the-forde-report/
17. Lee Harpin, ‘Labour Set to Reject Role for JVL in Antisemitism Education Training’, Jewish News (26 July 2022), https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/labour-set-to-reject-role-for-jvl-in-antisemitism-education-training/
18. Kate Osamor, ‘Kate Osamor MP: Starmer is Failing Black and Ethnic Minority Labour Members’, openDemocracy (28 July 2022), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-forde-report-racism-labour-kate-osamor-mp/
19. Heather Stewart, ‘Diane Abbott Urges Starmer to Act Over Racism in Labour Party’, The Guardian (26 July 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/26/diane-abbott-urges-starmer-to-act-over-racism-in-labour-party
20. https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Actions-Not-Being-Progressed.pdf
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23. Labour Party, ‘The Forde Report’ (19 July 2022), https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Forde-Report.pdf
24. Jim Waterson, ‘Al Jazeera Suspends Two Journalists Over Holocaust Report’, The Guardian (20 May 2019), https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/20/al-jazeera-suspends-two-journalists-over-offensive-holocaust-report
25. Nadine White, ‘Labour Party Tried to Gag Black Lawyer Who Wrote Party’s Own Racism Report’, The Independent (19 June 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-party-racism-report-martin-forde-starmer-b2564059.html
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27. Ruby Lott-Lavigna, ‘Is Labour Purging the Left? Inside the Party’s Embattled Selection Process’, openDemocracy (19 April 2023), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-selection-process-keir-starmer-maurice-mcleod-lauren-townsend/
28. Heather Stewart, ‘Wakefield Labour Executive Resigns Accusing Starmer of By-Election Stitch-Up’, The Guardian (13 May 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/13/wakefield-labour-executive-resigns-accusing-keir-starmer-byelection-stich-up
29. Vanessa Smith, ‘Why Broxtowe CLP’s Executive Committee Resigned Over Selection Process Stitch-Up, Labour Outlook (7 March 2023), https://labouroutlook.org/2023/03/07/why-broxtowe-clps-executive-committee-resigned-over-selection-process-stitch-up/; Lucy Jenkinson, ‘Executive Committee of Copeland Labour Resigns Over Selection Row’, News & Star (23 May 2023), https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23540498.executive-committee-copeland-labour-resigns-selection-row/
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31. Keir Starmer, ‘Reform and Unite’ (archived 21 February 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20200221234244/https://keirstarmer.com/plans/reformandunite/
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34. Jessica Elgot, ‘Labour Blocks Ex-Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad From Running at Next Election’, The Guardian (17 October 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/17/labour-blocks-former-kensington-mp-emma-dent-coad-from-running-next-election
35. Hamlins, ‘First Cladding Ruling Since Grenfell Tower Tragedy: Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley & Co Ltd’(22 September 2022), https://hamlins.com/insight/first-cladding-ruling-since-grenfell-tower-tragedy-martlet-homes-ltd-v-mulalley-co-ltd/
36. Maurice Mcleod, ‘Like Others on the Left, I Was Blocked From Standing as a Labour MP. That Only Harms the Party’, The Guardian (1 November 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/01/blocked-standing-labour-mp-party-candidates-left
37. Maurice Mcleod, ‘Like Others on the Left, I Was Blocked From Standing as a Labour MP. That Only Harms the Party’, The Guardian (1 November 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/01/blocked-standing-labour-mp-party-candidates-left
38. Richard Sudan, ‘Labour Crisis Intensifies as “Racist” Candidate Picked’, The Voice (31 October 2022), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2022/10/31/labour-crisis-intensifies-as-racist-candidate-picked/
39. Labour Black Socialists, ‘Labour Black Socialists Outraged By the Elimination of Maurice McLeod as Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Labour Party’, Labour Hub (16 October 2022), https://labourhub.org.uk/2022/10/16/labour-black- socialists-outraged-by-the-elimination-of-maurice-mcleod-as-prospective-parliamentary-candidate-for-the-labour- party/
40. Lester Holloway, ‘Uproar as Labour Block Activist From Standing for Parliament’, The Voice (15 October 2022), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2022/10/15/uproar-as-labour-block-activist-from-standing-for-parliament/
41. Lester Holloway, ‘Uproar as Labour Block Activist From Standing for Parliament’, The Voice (15 October 2022), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2022/10/15/uproar-as-labour-block-activist-from-standing-for-parliament/
42. Dawn Butler, ‘Why Labour is Launching the Bernie Grant Leadership Programme’, LabourList (28 March 2019), https://labourlist.org/2019/03/why-labour-is-launching-the-bernie-grant-leadership-programme/
43. Ashley Cowburn, ‘Member of Labour’s Governing Body “Blocked” From Standing For Party at Next Election’, Mirror (19 July 2023), https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/member-labours-governing-body-blocked-30470040
44. Aletha Adu, ‘Labour Must Better Support Aspiring Black MPs Says Bernie Grant’s Widow’, The Guardian (10 July 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/labour-must-better-support-aspiring-black-mps-says-bernie-grants-widow
45. Aletha Adu, ‘Labour Must Better Support Aspiring Black MPs Says Bernie Grant’s Widow’, The Guardian (10 July 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/labour-must-better-support-aspiring-black-mps-says-bernie-grants-widow
46. Aletha Adu, ‘Labour Must Better Support Aspiring Black MPs Says Bernie Grant’s Widow’, The Guardian (10 July 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/labour-must-better-support-aspiring-black-mps-says-bernie-grants-widow
47. ‘Bolsover: Labour Candidate Jerry Hague Stands Down’, BBC (20 December 2022), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64033841
48. Katie Nearne, ‘Dominic Beck Stands Down as Candidate for Rother Valley’, LabourList (23 December 2022), https://labourlist.org/2022/12/dominic-beck-stands-down-as-labour-candidate-for-rother-valley/
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50. Steven Downes, ‘Scotland Yard’s Cyber Crime Unit Investigating Croydon Labour’, Inside Croydon (18 March 2024), https://insidecroydon.com/2024/03/18/scotland-yards-cyber-crime-unit-investigating-croydon-labour/
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53. Joe Pike, ‘“Ants Are Everywhere”: Labour MP’s Tenant Reveals Condition of Flats’, BBC (30 August 2024), https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyg1j0lv1go
54. Ben Riley-Smith, ‘Labour Threatened With Legal Action Over “Voter Fraud”’, The Telegraph (22 March 2024), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/03/22/labour-party-selection-sam-tarry-angela-rayner/
55. Sean Seddon, ‘Who is Jamie Driscoll? Labour’s Left-Wing North of Tyne Mayoral Candidate’, Chronicle Live (8 May 2019), https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jamie-driscoll-north-tyne-mayor-15860074
56. Simon Hattenstone, ‘“If You Want Cartwheels, I’m Not Your Person”: Rachel Reeves on Charisma, U-Turns and Rescuing the Economy’, The Guardian (10 July 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/if-you-want-cartwheels-im-not-your-person-rachel-reeves-on-charisma-u-turns-and-rescuing-the-economy
57. Rachel Wearmouth, ‘Morgan McSweeney: Labour’s Power Broker’, The New Statesman (16 November 2022), https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2022/11/morgan-mcsweeney-labour-power-broker
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60. Daniel Holland, ‘Labour’s North East Mayor Candidate Kim McGuinness Accused of Using “Racial Slur” in Historic Social Media Post’, Northumberland Gazette (16 February 2024), https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/labours-north-east-mayor-candidate-kim-mcguinness-accused-of-using-racial-slur-in-historic-social-media-post-4521196
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68. Katie Nearne, ‘Starmer to Confirm NEC Will Not Endorse Corbyn As Candidate at Next Election’, LabourList (27 March 2023), https://labourlist.org/2023/03/starmer-to-confirm-nec-will-not-endorse-corbyn-as-candidate-at-next-election/
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70. Diane Abbott, ‘Racism is Black and White’, letter in The Guardian (23 April 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2023/apr/23/success-for-women-not-same-as-for-men-letters
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72. ‘Labour MP Apologises for “Silver Shekels” Tweet’, Jewish Chronicle (2 August 2020, https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/labour-mp-apologises-for-silver-shekels-tweet-1.502182
73. Post by @rachelreevesMP on X (24 February 2020), https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1231886779982151680
74. Lester Holloway, ‘Save Our Diane! New petition to Reinstate Legendary MP’, The Voice (19 May 2023), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/exclusive-news/2023/05/19/save-our-diane-new-petition-to-reinstate-legendary-mp/
75. ‘Diane slams sham investigation’, The Voice (19 September 2023), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2023/09/19/diane-slams-sham-investigation/
76. Rowena Mason, Matthew Weaver, and Henry Dyer, ‘Biggest Tory Donor Said Looking at Diane Abbott Makes You “Want to Hate All Black Women”’, The Guardian (11 March 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/biggest-tory-donor-looking-diane-abbott-hate-all-black-women
77. Post by @owenjonesjourno on X (12 March 2024), https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1767907717262320100
Chapter 22: March to the Right
1. Donna Ferguson and Tobi Thomas, ‘Starmer Says Labour Doing Something “Very Wrong” After Ulez-Linked Uxbridge Loss’, The Guardian (22 July 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/22/labour-considers-stance-on-green-issues-after-ulez-linked-uxbridge-lost
2. Joshua Simons, ‘Why Jews in Labour Place Little Trust in Jeremy Corbyn’, The Observer (11 September 2016), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/10/labour-left-antisemitism-jeremy-corbyn-israel
3. Post by @joshsimonsmp on X (18 April 2024), https://x.com/joshsimonsmp/status/1781088044998705491
4. ’67 Peers Tell Corbyn: “You Haven’t Opened Your Eyes, You Haven’t Told the Truth’, Jewish News (17 July 2019), https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/67-peers-tell-corbyn-you-havent-opened-your-eyes-you-havent-told-the-truth/
5. ‘Britain Israel Communications & Research Center: People’, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04204458/officers
6. Jim Pickard, Lucy Fisher, and Anna Gross, ‘The Think-Tank Laying the Groundwork for a Labour Government’, Financial Times (16 May 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/f71e109a-5e7d-4171-9c66-7d271b3152e8
7. James Walker, ‘Labour Together Receives £1.3m From Hedge Fund Billionaire’, The National (2 June 2024), https://www.thenational.scot/news/24359087.labour-together-receives-record-breaking-2m-donations-2024/
8. James Walker, ‘Labour Together Receives £1.3m From Hedge Fund Billionaire’, The National (2 June 2024), https://www.thenational.scot/news/24359087.labour-together-receives-record-breaking-2m-donations-2024/
9. Extracted from the Electoral Commission register, available at https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk. Register searched on July 23, 2024.
10. Asa Winstanley, ‘Labour’s New Bankroller is Israel Lobbyist, South African Apartheid Profiteer’, The Electronic Intifada (9 June 2023), https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/labours-new-bankroller-israel-lobbyist-south-african-apartheid-profiteer
11. ‘United Jewish Israel Appeal, Charity Number:10600078’, Charity Commission for England and Wales, https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/1060078
12. Jim Pickard, Lucy Fisher, and Anna Gross, ‘The Think-Tank Laying the Groundwork for a Labour Government’, Financial Times (16 May 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/f71e109a-5e7d-4171-9c66-7d271b3152e8
13. Jim Pickard, Lucy Fisher, and Anna Gross, ‘The Think-Tank Laying the Groundwork for a Labour Government’, Financial Times (16 May 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/f71e109a-5e7d-4171-9c66-7d271b3152e8
14. Solomon Hughes, ‘The Big-Money Scheme Behind Labour Together’, Jacobin (24 June 2024), https://jacobin.com/2024/06/labour-together-rich-donors-antidemocratic
15. Labour Together, ‘Red Shift: Labour’s Path to Power’ (2 April 2023), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d87070a60a6a39fefe87/1694685302745/Red+Shift++Labour%27s+Path+to+Power.pdf, p. 30
16. Labour Together, ‘Red Shift: Labour’s Path to Power’ (2 April 2023), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d87070a60a6a39fefe87/1694685302745/Red+Shift++Labour%27s+Path+to+Power.pdf, p. 8
17. Labour Together, ‘Red Shift: Labour’s Path to Power’ (2 April 2023), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d87070a60a6a39fefe87/1694685302745/Red+Shift++Labour%27s+Path+to+Power.pdf, p. 18
18. Labour Together, ‘Red Shift: Labour’s Path to Power’ (2 April 2023), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d87070a60a6a39fefe87/1694685302745/Red+Shift++Labour%27s+Path+to+Power.pdf, p31
19. Labour Together, ‘Red Shift: Labour’s Path to Power’ (2 April 2023), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d87070a60a6a39fefe87/1694685302745/Red+Shift++Labour%27s+Path+to+Power.pdf, p. 30
20. Andy Gregory, ‘Labour Think-Tank Boss Apologises For Saying Smuggling Gangs Should Be Shipped to Scotland, The Independent (13 February 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-scotland-smuggling-gangs-josh-simons-b2495508.html
21. Hamish Morrison, ‘Watch: Keir Starmer Admits Little Difference on Immigration Between Labour and Tories’, The National (24 October 2022), https://www.thenational.scot/news/23073096.keir-starmer-admits-little-difference-immigration-labour-tories/
22. Ben Riley-Smith, ‘Labour Will Issue Fewer Work Visas. Net Migration is Too High, Says Yvette Cooper’, The Telegraph (6 October 2023), https://archive.ph/VMlVa
23. Simon Johnson, ‘NHS is Hiring Too Many Foreign Staff, Says Keir Starmer, The Telegraph (6 November 2022), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/06/nhs-hiring-many-foreign-staff-says-sir-keir-starmer/
24. Archie Mitchell, ‘Keir Starmer Launches Illegal Migration Crackdown to Woo Tory Voters’, The Independent (10 September 2023), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-labour-small-boats-rishi-sunak-b2408713.html;
25. Rajeev Syal, Peter Walker, and Diane Taylor, ‘Starmer Criticised By Left and Right After Setting Out Plan to Stop Channel Crossings’, The Guardian (14 September 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/14/starmer-attacked-from-left-and-right-after-setting-out-plan-to-stop-channel-crossings
26. Diane Taylor, ‘“Slogans Won’t Solve This”: Refugee Charity Staff on Labour’s New Immigration Policy’, The Guardian (14 September 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/14/slogans-keir-starmer-refugee-charity-staff-labour-new-immigration-policy
27. Nick Gutteridge, ‘Steve Reed: “We Have A Broken Criminal Justice System That No Longer Has the Trust of the Public”’, The Telegraph (5 February 2023), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/05/steve-reed-have-broken-criminal-justice-system-no-longer-has/
28. Natasha Clark, ‘Mighty Fine: Absent Parents Face Huge Fines If They Fail to Control Their Yob Kids’, The Sun (1 June 2023), https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22553351/absent-mums-dads-face-fines-yob-kids-warns-labour/
29. Post by @UKLabour on X (6 April 2023), https://x.com/UKLabour/status/1643973886311297028; Post by @SteveReedMP on X (6 April 2023), https://x.com/SteveReedMP/status/1643976826778447877
30. Noah Keate and Andrew McDonald, ‘All the Times Keir Starmer’s Top Team Attacked the Two-Child Welfare Cap’, Politico (17 July 2023), https://www.politico.eu/article/all-times-keir-starmer-top-team-attack-two-child-welfare-cap/
31. Andrew Macaskill, ‘UK Labour Leader Defends Plan to Stick With Two-Child Welfare Cap’, Reuters (19 July 2023), https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-labour-leader-defends-plan-stick-with-two-child-welfare-cap-2023-07-18/
32. ‘The Public Order Bill: Explained’, Amnesty International UK (26 April 2023), https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/public-order-bill-explained
33. Steph Brawn, ‘Coronation: Keir Starmer has no plans to repeal protest laws’, The National, https://www.thenational.scot/news/23510723.coronation-keir-starmer-no-plans-repeal-new-protest-laws/ , 9 May 2023
34. ‘The Public Order Bill: Explained’, Amnesty International UK (26 April 2023), https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/public-order-bill-explained
35. Caroline Lucas, ‘The Tories’ Huge New Oilfield is a Moral Obscenity—But Rosebank Can Still Be Stopped’, The Guardian (27 September 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/tories-oilfield-rosebank-oil-climate-caroline-lucas
36. Rachel Reeves, ‘A New Business Model for Britain: Building Economic Strength in an Age of Insecurity’, Labour Together (24 May 2023), https://www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/a-new-business-model-for-britain
37. Mark Poynting, ‘World’s First Year-Long Breach of 1.5C Warming Limit’, BBC (8 February 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310
38. Kiran Stacey and Fiona Harvey, ‘Labour Cuts £28bn Green Investment Pledge By Half’, The Guardian (8 February 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/labour-cuts-28bn-green-investment-pledge-by-half
39. ‘Keir Starmer Visits Iceland Store as Chairman Richard Walker Backs Labour’, The Independent on YouTube (30 January 2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjjN_ahD4k
40. Henry Saker-Clark, ‘Iceland Managing Director Richard Walker Launches Campaign to Become Tory MP’, The Standard (19 October 2022), https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/iceland-managing-director-richard-walker-launches-campaign-to-become-tory-mp-b1033855.html
41. Jasdip Sensi, ‘Iceland Customers Call for Boycott Over Walker’s Rwanda View’, Retail Gazette (28 June 2022), https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2022/06/iceland-walker-rwanda/
42. Rowena Mason, ‘Iceland Supermarket Boss and Ex-Tory Donor Backs Stamer for PM’, The Guardian (29 January 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/29/iceland-supermarket-boss-and-ex-tory-donor-backs-starmer-for-pm
43. Jessica Frank-Keyes, ‘Ex Boris-Johnson Adviser Switches Side to Boost Labour Business Plans,’ City AM (16 October 2023), https://www.cityam.com/ex-boris-johnson-adviser-switches-sides-to-boost-labour-business-plans/
44. Post by @iain_w_anderson on X (4 August 2022), https://x.com/iain_w_anderson/status/1555208059714240513
45. Jim Pickard, ‘Cronynism Row Erupts as UK Government Appoints Lobbyist to Senior Role’, Financial Times (20 December 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/03cd095a-0371-4c69-82d6-6f80bd1a84a6
46. Dan Sabbagh, ‘Labour Calls for Increase in Defence Spending in Response to Ukraine War’, The Guardian (30 March 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/30/labour-calls-for-increase-defence-spending-response-to-ukraine-war
47. Keir Starmer, ‘Under My Leadership, Labour’s Commitment to Nato is Unshakable’, The Guardian (10 February 2022), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/10/labour-nato-british-left-ukraine-keir-starmer
48. Solomon Hughes, ‘The Labour Party Becomes the Lobbyists Party’, Morning Star (2 June 2023), https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/labour-party-becomes-lobbyists-party
49. Post by @broderly on X (3 October 2023), https://x.com/broderly/status/1709230139366580229
50. ‘Labour Together at Labour Party Conference’, Labour Together (13 September 2023), https://web.archive.org/web/20240212234239/https://www.labourtogether.uk/news-events/labourpartyconference
51. Adam Ramsay, ‘Labour Figures Took £10,000 Gifts From Google and YouTube Ahead of Tax U-Turn’, openDemocracy (30 August 2023), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-party-google-youtube-digital-services-tax-keir-starmer-jonathan-reynolds/
52. Ethan Shone and Ruby Lott-Lavigna, ‘Finance Firms Gave Labour £2m in Two Years Before Banker Bonuses U-Turn’, openDemocracy (1 February 2024), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-city-banks-finance-2m-donations-bankers-bonuses-u-turn-rachel-reeves/
53. Ethan Shone, ‘The Army of Private Sector Secondees Who Helped Labour Win’, openDemocracy (22 July 2024 ), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/labour-private-sector-secondees-finance-the-city-public-affairs-lobbying/
54. Ethan Shone, ‘The Army of Private Sector Secondees Who Helped Labour Win’, openDemocracy (22 July 2024 ), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/labour-private-sector-secondees-finance-the-city-public-affairs-lobbying/
55. Ethan Shone, ‘Labour Puts Lobbyists on the Ballot—and Big Business is the Winner’, openDemocracy (6 March 2024), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/labour-lobbying-candidates-secret-meetings-mp-prospective-business/
56. Post by Hanbury Strategy on Linkedin (July 2024), https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hanbury-strategy_hanbury-colleagues-standing-at-the-2024-general-activity-7212132404524666880-vEEW/
57. ‘Keir Starmer and Big Business, a Love Story’, Financial Times (15 February 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/7077e546-f2da-405b-8e4f-095a861dcc05
57. ‘Keir Starmer and Big Business, a Love Story’, Financial Times (15 February 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/7077e546-f2da-405b-8e4f-095a861dcc05
58. Adam Ramsay, ‘Starmer Has Taken More Freebies Than All Labour Leaders Since 1997 Combined,’ OpenDemocracy (25 August 2023), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-freebies-junkets-tottenham-hotspur-chelsea-coldplay-adele-google/
59. Ibid
60. ‘ARC Response to UKGC Consultation’, Arena Racing Company (24 October 2023), https://www.arenaracingcompany.co.uk/media-centre/news/industry-news/arc-response-to-ukgc-consultation
61. Sam Hall, ‘Billionaire Boss of THG Donated £300,000 to Conservative Party’, The I Paper (22 November 2020), https://inews.co.uk/news/business/billionaire-boss-the-hut-group-donated-conservative-party-768546
62. Robert Philpot, ‘UK Jewish Leader Calls Corbyn Premiership an “Existential Threat” to Community’, Times of Israel (17 August 2018), https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-jewish-leader-calls-corbyn-premiership-existential-threat-to-community/
63. Jonathan Goldstein, ‘Loud, Proud, and Uncompromising, I Stand With Israel’, The Times of Israel (9 October 2023), https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/loud-proud-and-uncompromising-i-stand-with-israel/
64. Aaron Morby, ‘Mulalley Ordered to Pay £10.8m Over Defective Cladding’, Construction Enquirer (6 September 2022), https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2022/09/06/mulalley-ordered-to-pay-10-8m-over-defective-cladding/
65. ‘Keir Starmer Defends Accepting Freebies on Security Grounds’, Financial Times (2 July 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/25d000df-bd63-49c0-bc10-aa263e29d98b
Chapter 23: Gaza
1. Ruth Michaelson and Kaamil Ahmed, ‘“It’s Basically Hell on Earth”: Gaza City Left Totally Bereft of Healthcare’, The Observer (19 November 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/19/its-basically-hell-on-earth-gaza-city-left-totally-bereft-of-healthcare
2. Beth McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum, ‘“We’re Focused on Maximum Damage”: Ground Offensive into Gaza Seems Imminent’, The Guardian (10 October 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/right-now-it-is-one-day-at-a-time-life-on-israels-frontline-with-gaza
3. United Nations Relief and Works Agency Situation Report #82 on the Situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Including East Jerusalem’ (26 February 2024), https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-82-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem
4. United Nations Relief and Works Agency Situation Report #82 on the Situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Including East Jerusalem’ (26 February 2024), https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-82-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem
5. ‘Palestine: Impact of the Conflict on Children in the Gaza Strip’ (1 February 2024), https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/acaps-thematic-report-palestine-impact-conflict-children-gaza-strip-01-february-2024
6. ‘Gaza Strip in Maps: How 15 Months of War Have Drastically Changed Life in the Territory’, BBC News (16 January 20250, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20415675
7. ‘Israel’s Military Campaign in Gaza Seen as Among the Most Destructive in Recent History, Experts Say’, Associated Press (11 January 2024), https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-bombs-destruction-death-toll-scope-419488c511f83c85baea22458472a796
8. Nina Lakhani, ‘Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians, UN Rights Expert Says’, The Guardian (27 February 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide
9. Nina Lakhani, ‘Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians, UN Rights Expert Says’, The Guardian (27 February 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide
10. Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, ‘Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult But Essential’, The Lancet, Vol. 404, Issue 10449 (20 July 2024), https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext, p. 237-238
11. Professor Michel Guillot, Mohammad Draidi, Valeria Cetorelli, Jose HC Monteira Da Silva, and Ismail Lubbad, ‘Life Expectancy Losses in the Gaza Strip During the Period October 2023 to September 2024’, The Lancet, Vol 405, Issue 10477, (8 February 2025), https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/abstract, p. 478-485
12. Order of 26 January 2024, Document Number 192-20240126-ORD-01-00-EN in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), International Court of Justice, https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203447
13. Pjotr Sauer, ‘Hundreds Outside ICJ Give Israel Ruling a Measured Welcome’, The Guardian (26 January 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/jan/26/hundreds-outside-icj-give-israel-ruling-a-measured-welcome
14. Order of 26 January 2024, Document Number 192-20240126-ORD-01-00-EN in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), International Court of Justice, https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203447
15. ‘Israeli Defence Minister Orders “Complete Siege” on Gaza’, Al Jazeera (9 October 2023), https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/10/9/israeli-defence-minister-orders-complete-siege-on-gaza
16. Order of 26 January 2024, Document Number 192-20240126-ORD-01-00-EN in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), International Court of Justice, https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203447
17. Post by @KayBurley on X (11 October 2023), https://x.com/KayBurley/status/1712032335162495397
18. Post by @vicderbyshire on X (12 October 2023), https://x.com/vicderbyshire/status/1712249225633780043
19. ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, BBC on Youtube (22 October 2023), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Twcqefjjtk
20. ‘Tonight’, ITV (18 January 2024), https://www.itv.com/watch/tonight/1a2803/1a9757a0142
21. Post by @JLC_uk (27 October 2023), https://twitter.com/JLC_uk/status/1717912414463709475
22. Board of Deputies of British Jews, ‘A long-term resolution to this conflict will not be brokered in Parliament, but by Israelis and Palestinians themselves’ (21 February 2024), https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/statement-on-ceasefire-motion-debate-in-parliament/
23. Board of Deputies of British Jews, ‘Board welcomes the Government’s statement on the International Court of Justice’s initial ruling’ (28 January 20240, https://bod.org.uk/bod-news/board-welcomes-the-governments-statement-on-the-international-court-of-justices-initial-ruling/
24. Post by @JLC_uk on X (26 January 2024), https://x.com/JLC_uk/status/1750914580761415814
25. ‘Labour Has Consulted US Over Its Gaza Approach’, PoliticsHome (9 January 2024), https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-position-gaza-shaped-by-united-states-approach-israel-palestine
26. ‘Labour Has Consulted US Over Its Gaza Approach’, PoliticsHome (9 January 2024), https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-position-gaza-shaped-by-united-states-approach-israel-palestine
27. Tom Baldwin, Keir Starmer: The Biography, p. 313
28. Sam Magdy, ‘Save the Children Says 85,000 Kids May Have Died of Hunger in Yemen’, USA Today (21 November 2018), https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/21/yemen-children-hunger/2076683002/
29. Sienna Rodgers, ‘What does Keir Starmer Mean by a “Prevention of Military Intervention Act?”’, LabourList (12 February 2020), https://labourlist.org/2020/02/what-does-keir-starmer-mean-by-a-prevention-of-military-intervention-act/
20. Aletha Adu, ‘Keir Starmer Defends Stance on Military Action and Saudi Arms Sales’, The Guardian (14 January 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/14/keir-starmer-defends-stance-on-military-action-and-saudi-arms
31. Post by @LivRivLeft on X (14 October 2023), https://x.com/LivRivLeft/status/1713143296581607851
32. Tim Baker, ‘Andy McDonald: Senior Labour MP Suspended Over “Deeply Offensive” Comments at Pro-Palestine Rally’, Sky News (30 October 2023), https://news.sky.com/story/andy-mcdonald-senior-labour-mp-suspended-over-deeply-offensive-comments-at-pro-palestine-rally-12996759
33. ‘Bring Windrush Memorial “Home” to Brixton Urges Councillor’, Black History Month (16 June 2020), https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/news/bring-windrush-memorial-home-to-brixton-urges-councillor/
34. Jason Cobb, ‘Lambeth Faces By-Election as Labour Councillor Sonia Winifred Resigns Amidst Gaza Ceasefire Controversy’, Brixton Buzz (28 February 2024), https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2024/02/lambeth-faces-by-election-as-labour-cllr-sonia-winifred-resigns-amidst-gaza-ceasefire-controversy/
35. ‘Bring Windrush Memorial “Home” to Brixton Urges Councillor’, Black History Month (16 June 2020), https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/news/bring-windrush-memorial-home-to-brixton-urges-councillor/
36. Post by @Martin_Abrams on X (27 February 2024), https://x.com/Martin_Abrams/status/1762549118499512757
37. Oxford City Councillors, ‘Labour Loses Oxford City Council Over Gaza’, Tribune (20 October 2023), https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/10/labour-just-lost-control-of-oxford-city-council-over-starmers-comments-on-gaza; ‘Labour Loses Control of Norwich City Council After Four Resign’, BBC (28 November 2023), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-67561830
38. Post by @stevepowers on X (25 Februayr 2024), https://x.com/StevePowers_/status/1761725566628065605/video/1
39. Sophie Wingate, ‘Reeves Rejects Suggestions Hamas Attack Caused By Israel’s “Cccupation” of Gaza’, The Independent (9 October 2023), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hamas-jeremy-corbyn-labour-friends-of-israel-gaza-lisa-nandy-b2426457.html
40. Post by @FisherAndrew79 on X (12 November 2023), https://x.com/FisherAndrew79/status/1723639894319271957
41. Maguire and Pogrund, Get In, p. 334
42. Post by @MuslimWales on X (24 October 2023), https://x.com/MuslimWales/status/1716911395294621879
43. Tom Belger, ‘Kate Osamor Suspended and Apologises for Gaza “Genocide” Claim in Holocaust Memorial Day Comments’, LabourList (29 January 2024), https://labourlist.org/2024/01/holocaust-memorial-day-gaza-labour-mp-kate-osamor-suspended/
44. Tom Belger, ‘Kate Osamor Suspended and Apologises for Gaza “Genocide” Claim in Holocaust Memorial Day Comments’, LabourList (29 January 2024), https://labourlist.org/2024/01/holocaust-memorial-day-gaza-labour-mp-kate-osamor-suspended/
45. Richard Sudan, ‘“Keir Starmer Doesn’t Care About Black People”’, The Voice (1 February 2024), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2024/02/01/keir-starmer-doesnt-care-about-black-people/
46. Richard Sudan, ‘Labour’s Race Equality Act: A Hollow Gesture or Genuine Change?’ The Voice (15 February 2024), https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2024/02/15/labours-race-equality-act-a-hollow-gesture-or-genuine-change/
47. Lee Harpin, ‘Labour Friends of Israel Sends Delegation on “Solidarity” Visit to Israel”, Jewish News (10 January 2024), https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/labour-friends-of-israel-sends-delegation-on-solidarity-visit-to-israel/
48. Vivian Yee, Abu Bakr Bashir, and Gaya Gupta, ‘The War the World Can’t See’, The New York Times (30 January 2024), https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/world/middleeast/gaza-war-palestinian-journalists.html; ‘Journalist Casualties in the Israel-Gaza War,’ Committee to Protect Journalists (16 June 2025), https://cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
49. ‘“We will not be silenced”—Labour Against Antisemitism’s Open Letter’, LabourList (27 March 2018), https://labourlist.org/2018/03/we-will-not-be-silenced-labour-against-antisemitisms-open-letter/
50. David Hirsch, ‘Labour Must Expel Likes of JVL’, Jewish Chronicle (10 December 2020), https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/analysis/labour-must-expel-likes-of-jvl-ge7gig5n
51. Post by @_LFI (Labour Friends of Israel) on X (14 February 2024), https://x.com/_LFI/status/1757722267687989303
52. David Graham and Jonathan Boyd, ‘Jews in the UK Today: Key Findings From the JPR National Jewish Identity Survey’, Institute for Jewish Policy Research (February 2024), https://www.jpr.org.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Jews%20in%20the%20UK%20today%20-%20Feb%202024%20-%20Jewish%20identity%20report.pdf
53. ‘YouGov Survey Results: Israel-Gaza’ (13 February 2024), https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/YouGov_-_Israel_Palestine_13_Feb_2024.pdf
54. Matthew Smith, ‘British Attitudes to the Israel-Gaza Conflict: February 2024 Update’, YouGov (15 February 2024), https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48675-british-attitudes-to-the-israel-gaza-conflict-february-2024-update
55. Post by @Peston on X (20 February 2024) https://x.com/Peston/status/1760006288660955192
56. International Court of Justice, Application of The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide In The Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240306-wri-01-00-en.pdf
57. ‘President Herzog Address ICJ Ruling’, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (28 January 2024), https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/president-herzog-addresses-icj-ruling-28-jan-2024
58. Caroline Wheeler, Tim Shipman, Harry Yorke and John Boothman, ‘After a week of chaos, Sir Lindsay Hoyle is running out of options’, The Sunday Times (25 February 2024, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/after-a-week-of-chaos-sir-lindsay-hoyle-is-running-out-of-options-lrlq9hjhd
59. Caroline Wheeler, Tim Shipman, Harry Yorke and John Boothman, ‘After a week of chaos, Sir Lindsay Hoyle is running out of options’, The Sunday Times (25 February 2024, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/after-a-week-of-chaos-sir-lindsay-hoyle-is-running-out-of-options-lrlq9hjhd
60. Letter from Tom Goldsmith, Clerk of the House, to Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP (21 February 2024), https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2024-0193/Speaker.docx
61. Post by @nicholaswatt on X (21 February 2024), https://x.com/nicholaswatt/status/1760315363542122769
62. Emine Sinmaz, ‘Palestinian Ambassador to UK Says Eight Relatives Killed in Israeli Strikes in Rafah’, The Guardian (16 February 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/palestinian-ambassador-to-uk-says-eight-relatives-killed-in-israeli-strikes-in-rafah
63. Post by Hassan Zomlot on Instagram (14 February 2024), https://www.instagram.com/hzomlot/reel/C3V1jB_IAvr/
64. Post by @Channel4News on X (21 February 2024 ), https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1760385931440246886
65. Serena Barker-Singh, ‘Sunak and Starmer Facing Historic Unpopularity Eith Ethnically Diverse Communities, Polling Suggests’, Sky News (15 May 2024), https://news.sky.com/story/sunak-and-starmer-facing-historic-unpopularity-with-ethnically-diverse-communities-polling-suggests-13136587
66. Serena Barker-Singh, ‘Sunak and Starmer Facing Historic Unpopularity Eith Ethnically Diverse Communities, Polling Suggests’, Sky News (15 May 2024), https://news.sky.com/story/sunak-and-starmer-facing-historic-unpopularity-with-ethnically-diverse-communities-polling-suggests-13136587
Chapter 24: The Loveless Landslide
1. The boundaries of Holborn and St. Pancras were amended for the 2024 election, one result of which was that the electorate reduced by approximately 10 percent.
2. Rivkah Brown, ‘How the Guardian Lined Up Behind Starmer’, Novara Media (16 July 2024), https://novaramedia.com/2024/07/16/how-the-guardian-lined-up-behind-starmer/
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4. Archie Mitchell, ‘Diane Abbott Fury as Starmer Suggests Her Suspension is Nothing to do With Him’, The Independent (24 May 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-diane-abbott-general-election-b2550793.html
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7. Aletha Adu, ‘Three Labour Names in Frame With Diane Abbott’s Candidacy in Doubt’, The Guardian (28 May 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/28/three-labour-names-in-frame-diane-abbott-election
8. Peter Walker, Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot, and Sammy Gescoyler, ‘I Want to Be An MP for as Long as Possible, Diane Abbott Tells Supporters’, The Guardian (29 May 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/diane-abbott-hackney-mp-long-as-possible
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11. ‘Faiza Shaheen Says Her Candidacy Has Been Blocked by Labour’, BBC Newsnight on Youtube (30 May 2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAIqzYoj1Jc
12. Dave Hill, ‘Interview: Shama Tatler, Labour Candidate for Chingford & Wood Green’, On London (13 June 2024), https://www.onlondon.co.uk/interview-shama-tatler-labour-candidate-for-chingford-woodford-green/; Marco Marceline, ‘Shama Tatler: “I’m a Labour Moderate But I’m Still Left-Wing”’, Waltham Forest (28 June 2024), https://walthamforestecho.co.uk/2024/06/28/shama-tatler-im-a-labour-moderate-but-im-still-left-wing/
13. Zoe Williams, ‘“How Can They Treat People Like This?” Faiza Shaheen on Labour—and Why She’s Running as an Independent’, The Guardian (5 June 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/how-can-they-treat-people-like-this-faiza-shaheen-on-labour-and-why-shes-running-as-an-independent
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15. Neha Gohill, ‘Labour Treatment of Abbott Having Impact on Voters, Senior Lawyers Say’, The Guardian (31 May 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/31/labour-underestimating-impact-treatment-diane-abbott-lawyer-says
16. Jennifer McKiernan and Charlotte Wright, ‘Labour Suspends MP Russell-Moyle Over Complaint’, BBC (29 May 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5114q1x09eo
17. Solomon Hughes, ‘Labour for Sale’, Tribune (8 December 2023), https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/12/labour-for-sale
18. Alibhe Rea and Julian Harris, ‘Labour’s Vulnerabilities’, Bloomberg (28 June 2024), https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-06-28/ailbhe-rea-and-julian-harris-labour-s-vulnerabilities
19. ‘McCartney Makes it a Century’, Manchester Evening News (30 June 2005), https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mccartney-makes-it-a-century-1068422
20. Paul Seddon & Becky Morton, ‘What Do Candidate Selections Tell Us About Starmer’s Labour’, BBC (2 June 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c800g7qlrjzo
21. Ben Jureidini, ‘The “Red Princess” Who Everyone Is Talking About: Meet Georgia Gould, the Labour MP Whose Illustrious Family History Shaped Modern British Politics’, Tatler (11 July 2024), https://www.tatler.com/article/georgia-gould-labour-dynasty
22. ‘Interview with Michael Crick: “I’m a Blairite But I Won’t Vote Labour”’, Novara Media (4 June 2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHowypN4nw
23. Catrin Haf Jones, ‘Labour Has Undemocratic Culture, Says Party Member’, BBC (1 June 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxxw89djr7o
24. Darren Williams, ‘Why I Am Resigning From Labour’, Labour Hub (3 June 2024), https://labourhub.org.uk/2024/06/03/darren-williams-to-keir-starmer-why-i-am-resigning-from-labour/
25. Post by @ABarrosCurtis on X (26 July 2024), https://x.com/ABarrosCurtis/status/1816879743578292235
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27. ‘Interview with Michael Crick: “I’m a Blairite But I Won’t Vote Labour”’, Novara Media (4 June 2024), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHowypN4nw
28. Aditya Chakrabortty, ‘Drill Into the Policy, Ignore the Puffery: This is a Starmer Manifesto More Than a Labour One’, The Guardian (15 June 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/policy-keir-starmer-manifesto-labour-business-tory
29. Labor Party, ‘Change: Labour Party Manifesto 2024’, https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Labour-Party-manifesto-2024.pdf, p. 131
30. Bee Boileau, Christine Farquharson, Paul Johnson, Helen Miller, Isabel Stockton, George Stoye, Max Warner, and Tom Waters, ‘Labour Party manifesto: an initial response’, Institute for Fiscal Studies (13 June 2024), https://ifs.org.uk/articles/labour-party-manifesto-initial-response ,
31. Ministry of Defence, ‘UK Defence in Numbers: 2023’, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/660d4b5197e60600112b2218/MOD_Defence_in_Numbers_2023.pdf
32. ‘The Sunday Times Rich List 2024’, Sunday Times, https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list
33. ‘Profile: John Cauldwell’, Forbes (15 December 2024), https://www.forbes.com/profile/john-caudwell/
34. Chiara Giordano, ‘Phones4U Tycoon Says He Will Flee UK Rather Than Be “Raped” If Corbyn Wins Next Election’, The Independent (25 April 2019), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/phones4u-john-caudwell-leave-uk-monaco-taxes-corbyn-a8885796.html
35. Post by @BBCNewsnight on X (18 June 2024), https://x.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1803182487872360592
36. Daniel Wainwright, ‘Labour Got More Donations Than Other Parties Combined’, BBC (15 July 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3j131327yo
37. Daniel Wainwright, ‘Labour Got More Donations Than Other Parties Combined’, BBC (15 July 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3j131327yo
38. John McEvoy, ‘Pro-Israel Tycoon Gives Labour Half a Million Pounds’, Declassified UK (2 July 2024), https://www.declassifieduk.org/pro-israel-tycoon-gives-labour-half-a-million-pounds/
39. John McEvoy, ‘Pro-Israel Tycoon Gives Labour Half a Million Pounds’, Declassified UK (2 July 2024), https://www.declassifieduk.org/pro-israel-tycoon-gives-labour-half-a-million-pounds/
40. Nick Gutteridge, ‘Morgan McSweeney’s Wife Received £10,000 From Organisation He Used to Run’, The Telegraph (7 October 2024), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/07/morgan-mcsweeney-wife-labour-donation-imogen-walker/
41. Ethan Shone, ‘Revealed: Corporate Lobbyists Were at Heart of Labour’s Election Campaign’, openDemocracy (1 August 2024), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-lobbyists-work-for-party-undeclared-election-campaign/
42. Ethan Shone, ‘Labour Gives £4m From Tax Haven-Based Hedge Fund With Shares in Oil and Arms’, openDemocracy (18 September 2024), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-given-4m-from-tax-haven-based-hedge-fund-with-shares-in-oil-and-arms/
43. ‘The Sunday Times Rich List 2024’, Sunday Times, https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list
44. Kiran Stacey, ‘Climate Groups Accept Millions From Charity Linked to Fossil Fuel Investments’, The Guardian (30 June 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/30/climate-groups-accept-millions-from-charity-linked-to-fossil-fuel-investments-quadrature-climate-foundation
45. Kiran Stacey, ‘Climate Groups Accept Millions From Charity Linked to Fossil Fuel Investments’, The Guardian (30 June 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/30/climate-groups-accept-millions-from-charity-linked-to-fossil-fuel-investments-quadrature-climate-foundation
46. Paul Holden, ‘Firm Behind £4m Labour Party Donation Invested in Weapons for Israel’, openDemocracy (15 October 2024), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/keir-starmer-labour-party-quadrature-donation-arms-companies-israel-war-gaza/
47. Berny Torre, ‘Labour Urged to Return £4m as “Blood Money” Linked to Gaza Genocide’, Morning Star (16 October 2024), https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-urged-return-ps4m-blood-money-linked-gaza-genocide
48. Paul Holden, ‘Firm behind £4m Labour Party donation invested in weapons for Israel’, op cit. When asked for comment, Quadrature dismissed the idea that the shareholdings were linked to the war in Gaza. ‘By that logic, most pension holders and most index tracker funds also own the stocks that you cite. At any given time Quadrature will have long and short positions across many thousands of different stocks’, a spokesman said. They further argued that ‘we maintain both short and long positions in each sector simultaneously, aiming for roughly equivalent values between them. SEC disclosures only show our long positions on the US portion of our book, while our short holdings and our non-US holdings are not disclosed. This, on top of the fact that the SEC filings you cite are only a snapshot of our book four times a year means that it misrepresents our investment activities and paints an incomplete and inaccurate picture of our trading’.
49. Natalie Elphicke, ‘Don’t Trust Labour on Immigration They Really Want Open Borders, Warns Natalie Elphicke’, Express (25 April 2023), https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1762668/labour-immigration-open-borders
50. Jennifer McKiernan, ‘Natalie Elphicke: Who is Former Tory MP Who Defected to Labour?’ BBC (8 May 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68976807
51. Labour Party, ‘Labour’s Immigration and Border Policy: How We’ll Create a Fair System and Stop the Small Boat Crossings’ (4 May 2024), https://web.archive.org/web/20240513190246/https://labour.org.uk/updates/stories/labours-immigration-and-border-policy-stop-small-boats/
52. Elisa Menendez, ‘“Safe Routes Not the Answer”: Starmer Rejects Opening New Passages for Other Countries for Migrants’, ITV (10 May 2024), https://www.itv.com/news/2024-05-10/starmer-vows-hostile-ground-for-smuggling-gangs-and-to-scrap-rwanda-policy
53. Elisa Menendez, ‘“Safe Routes Not the Answer”: Starmer Rejects Opening New Passages for Other Countries for Migrants’, ITV (10 May 2024), https://www.itv.com/news/2024-05-10/starmer-vows-hostile-ground-for-smuggling-gangs-and-to-scrap-rwanda-policy
54. Kate Ferguson, ‘Manifesto Pledge; Keir Starmer Says “Read My Lips—I Will Cut Immigration” and Vows to Crack Down on Foreign Visas and Train More Brits’, The Sun (1 June 2024), https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/28248452/keir-starmer-manifesto-immigration/
55. Eleni Courea and Peter Walker, ‘Sunak and Starmer Scrap Over Tax and Immigration in Heated First TV Debate’, The Guardian (4 June 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/04/sunak-and-starmer-scrap-over-tax-and-immigration-in-heated-first-tv-debate
56. Nesrine Malik, Katy Balls, Owen Jones, and Nels Abbey, ‘Starmer v Sunak: Who Came Out On Top in the Leader’s First Debate? Our Panel’s Verdict’, The Guardian (5 June 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/05/rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-leaders-debate-panel-prime-minister-labour-tax-gaza-immigration
57. Shehab Khan, ‘Bangladesh High Commission Sends Letter to Starmer About “Concerning” Remarks’, ITV (30 June 2024), https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-30/bangladesh-high-commission-sends-letter-to-starmer-about-concerning-remarks
58. Imran Mulla, ‘UK election 2024: Arrivals From “Countries Like Bangladesh” Are Not Being Deported, Keir Starmer Complains’, Middle East Eye (26 June 2024), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-starmer-complains-migrants-countries-bangladesh-are-not-being-removed
59. Imran Mulla, ‘UK election 2024: Arrivals From “Countries Like Bangladesh” Are Not Being Deported, Keir Starmer Complains’, Middle East Eye (26 June 2024), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-starmer-complains-migrants-countries-bangladesh-are-not-being-removed
60. ‘Rioters Celebrate as Fire Blazes at Tamworth Hotel’, BBC (4 August 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c97882r2729o; Emine Sinmaz, Robyn Vinter, ‘Rioters Try to Torch Rotherham Asylum Seeker Hotel Amid Far-Right Violence’, The Guardian (4 August 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/rioters-try-to-torch-rotherham-asylum-seeker-hotel-amid-far-right-violence
61. Shehab Khan, ‘Bangladesh High Commission Sends Letter to Starmer About “Concerning” Remarks’, ITV (30 June 2024), https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-30/bangladesh-high-commission-sends-letter-to-starmer-about-concerning-remarks
62. Katherine Hearst, ‘UK Election 2024: Starmer’s Attack on Bangladeshis Could Cost Him, Says Constituents’, Middle East Eye (3 July 2024), https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/starmers-comments-about-bangladeshi-community-could-cost-him-dearly-election-camden-residents
63. See, for example: Katherine Hearst, ‘UK Election 2024: Starmer’s Attack on Bangladeshis Could Cost Him, Says Constituents’, Middle East Eye
64. Sam Coates, ‘General Election: Uneasy Voters Hand Labour a “Loveless Landslide” Shattering Traditional Voting Patterns’, Sky News (5 July 2024), https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-uneasy-voters-hand-labour-a-loveless-landslide-shattering-traditional-voting-patterns-13170684
65. Eleni Courea, ‘Rising Stars Who Could Play a Big Part in a Labour Government’, The Guardian (5 June 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/05/rising-stars-who-could-play-a-big-part-in-a-labour-government
66. ‘The 2024 General Election—in Numbers’, Full Fact (5 July 2024), https://fullfact.org/election-2024/general-election-result-numbers/
67. Rowena Mason, ‘Lowest Turnout in UK General Election Since Universal Suffrage, Report Shows’, The Guardian (12 July 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/12/lowest-turnout-in-uk-general-election-since-universal-suffrage-report-shows
68. Ben Chu, ‘Biggest Ever Gap Between Number of Votes and MPs Hits Reform and Greens’, BBC (5 July 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c886pl6ldy9o
69. ‘The 2024 General Election—in Numbers’, Full Fact (5 July 2024), https://fullfact.org/election-2024/general-election-result-numbers/
70. Sarah Ledoux and Matthew Smith, ‘Why Are Britons Voting Labour?’ YouGov (3 July 2024), https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49947-why-are-britons-voting-labour
71. Matthew Smith, ‘Why People Voted Labour or Conservative at the 2017 General Election’, YouGov (11 July 2017), https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/18588-why-people-voted-labour-or-conservative-2017-gener
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74. Sir John Curtice, ‘Sir John Curtice: The Dramatic Tory Decline Behind Labour’s Landslide’, BBC (4 July 2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2x0g8nkzmzo
75. Richard Sanders, ‘The Self-Destructive Malice of the Labour Right’, Declassified UK (10 July 2024), https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-self-destructive-malice-of-the-labour-right/
76. Richard Sanders, ‘The Self-Destructive Malice of the Labour Right’, Declassified UK
77. Nadine White and Alicja Hagopian, ‘Labour Lost Almost Third of its Black and Asian Support at Election, Polling Finds’, The Independent (29 July 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-party-black-asian-voters-b2584177.html
78. Nadine White and Alicja Hagopian, ‘Labour Lost Almost Third of its Black and Asian Support at Election, Polling Finds’, The Independent
79. Aditya Chakrabortty, ‘It Was a Landslide Election But This Much is Clear: Neither Labour Nor the Tories Stand on Solid Ground’, The Guardian (11 July 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/11/landslide-election-labour-tories-disarray
80. Esther Adley and Ben Quinn, ‘“We’re Coming for Labour”: Reform’s Small Seat Count Conceals Size of its Threat’, The Guardian (5 July 2024), https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/05/reform-few-seats-conceal-size-threat
81. Ian Dunt, ‘This King’s Speech will bury the Tories for a decade’, The I Paper (17 July 2024), https://inews.co.uk/opinion/kings-speech-bury-tories-decade-3174621?srsltid=AfmBOorQ3E5eAHvuSM_io0hNOiHLKAGfwxpJDKHbfz9av5MFqc7ntnTy
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83. Difford, ‘How Do Britons Feel About the First 100 Days of Labour Government?’ YouGov
84. Lucy Leeson, ‘Environment Minister Confronted Over Accepting Football Tickets Linked to Water Pollution Company’, The Independent (23 October 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/water-pollution-environment-secretary-football-tickets-b2634016.html; Helen Corbett, ‘Environment Secretary Says Free Football Tickets Were Not from Water Company’, The Independent (23 October 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/business/environment-secretary-says-free-football-tickets-were-not-from-water-company-b2634100.html
85. Paul Holden, ‘Exposed: How Big Money Captured Sir Keir Starmer’, DoubleDown News (1 July 2024), https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2024/july/1/exposed-how-corporations-captured-keir-starmer
86. ‘Keir Starmer Accepted £76,000 of Freebies Including Tickets to Over 20 Football Games’, Financial Times (1 July 2024), https://www.ft.com/content/0c99a9b0-59c6-49be-9faf-194bd981b62c
87. Andrew Marr, ‘110 Days That Shook Labour’, New Statesman (9 October 2024), https://www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/2024/10/andrew-marr-100-days-that-shook-labour-keir-starmer
88. Marr, ‘110 Days That Shook Labour’, New Statesman
89. Owen Jones, ‘EXPOSED: The Real BIGGEST Election Lie w/ James Meadway’, Owen Jones on YouTube (6 June 2024 ), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6tXjV30_4
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