Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
AN MP who is one of Rishi Sunak’s key backers also works for a PR firm implicated in distributing an anti-Sunak “mucky memo.”
Liam Fox is an important supporter, speaking out in support of Sunak from the start of the campaign. Fox is a long-standing figure on the right of the party, so his support for Sunak, who is perceived as leaning slightly to the Tory “left,” is important.
Fox’s support indicated Sunak could call on all wings of the Tories: it was useful because Sunak faced challengers perceived as being on the more “headbanging” right, like Priti Patel and his final challenger, Liz Truss. Fox denied he had been promised a Cabinet job by Sunak, although he would clearly welcome a return to a top position.
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE
SOLOMON HUGHES details how the firm has quickly moved on to buttering-up Labour MPs after the fall of the Tories so it can continue to ‘win both ways’ collecting public and private cash by undermining the NHS



