(3) But the simple 'MPs-pundits-polls-think tanks' model of power actually has very shallow roots in the country, it keeps reproducing shallow, unpopular technocratic centrism, where the old model of party -unions-campaigners is better rooted , even now

(2) Powell could have gone for 'critics should get behind Starmer for the May elections, but Starmer must give us more to get behind ' type messages, but instead just 'put a sock in it' ..appropriately she also turned of any replies. Soft Left MPs to Left members :" shut up and do as your told"

(2) observer.co.uk/news/opinion... Instead Phil Collins says the budget should have included 'what not to do '(cuts) - and then comes up with this uninspiring list of the 'bold' plans Keir could pick. By ruling out redistribution of £ and power, every attempt to give Labour a cause is more blandness