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Charting a new course for Labour
Labour's future is not only a question of who is leader or what policies conference decides but about organisation and institutional power, argues NICK WRIGHT

IT IS an odd sensation to watch as a whole cohort of Tory MPs call for the resignation of the Prime Minister’s grand vizier while the official parliamentary opposition remains mute. 

Boris Johnson’s dogged defence of his consigliere has legitimised the precipitate relaxation of the lockdown measures that the Prime Minister has until now thought politically unwise. 

Unless Dominic Cummings is sacked and Johnson doubles down on the existing advice to the public, then the sense that if the rules don’t apply to the Prime Minister’s minder then they don’t apply to anyone else will give effect to what big business wanted all along.

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