Are they office based or potentially remote?

Unless we want a Farage government, Starmer should go as soon as possible. He needed to galvanise the left and centre to keep out the hard right populists. Instead, he abandoned progressive social democracy in a ridiculous attempt to get the votes of a thousand racists in Mansfield.

I think she was right to go. When you campaign against tax avoidance and call upon others to resign over unpaid tax, you need to be perfect on that issue yourself. However, you know that there's no way a Tory or Reform minister would have left so honourably.

The unifying factor behind the Conservative Party is equating laziness with poverty - if the poor work harder, they won't be poor. I can't believe that this reactionary nonsense is now Labour Party policy. Although Timm's version is - if the disabled just work harder, they won't be so disabled.

I think you slightly misunderstood what I meant. Since getting elected, Starmer has been largely pandering to the right - presumably to avoid being trounced in the Red Wall. He's taken the left and centre for granted. With the threat from Corbyn now very real, Starmer will have to change focus.

The danger of this party is obviously that it splits the progressive vote and lets Farage in. Hopefully, it will make Starmer fight for, at least, centre-left votes, rather than reactionary ones. Corbyn could actually do something positive if he stops Starmer hammering the disabled & aping Powell.

The news today about de minimis customs imports is also a Brexit story. The limit pre-Brexit was £15. Once Brexit began to be implemented, customs brokerage became inundated, so the government relieved some of the pressure by upping the limit to £135.

Stupid decision by Starmer. The Welfare bill was a terrible idea and should never have been proposed. The opposition from Labour MPs and Mayors gave me some hope that the party is still my party, even if the leadership has made me doubt that recently. This is another strategic own goal.

Not the entire party. This actually highlights the strength of Labour. Even with a poor leader, Chancellor and Welfare Minister, the basic decency of the party came through. There is no way the Lib Dems or the Tories rebel against a whip to support a terrible bill.

Or...stop trying for the reactionary vote and let Farage have them. Pin Brexit on Farage and explain that is the reason for the comatose economy. Go into the next GE with Labour promising to rejoin the SM and CU. Watch the economy fly and inward investment take off.

Which underlines what a disastrously bad policy austerity was. Reducing the spending power of the least wealthy condemns an economy to scrape along the bottom. People with no reserves spend their incomes quickly - this recycles quickly through the real economy and back into government coffers.

There's a basic principle that Starmer, Reeves and Kendal forgot: you should not try to balance the books by making the lives of vulnerable people intolerable. Borrowing more, taxing wealth or tightening the rules on tax avoidance won't kill people, taking away PIP will.

Indeed it is, but if the Govt just kept that in mind before trying to force through policies which are incompatible with basic Labour values, it would save a lot of heartache and wouldn't hand the next GE on a plate to Farage.

I actually think that the root cause is the bond markets. If the govt does not placate them, public borrowing becomes unsustainable. The bond markets prefer centre-right policies, so that's where governments are forced. That isn't making life better for many people, hence the dissatisfaction.

I'm sure that by addressing the reasons that people are claiming that the benefits bill can be reduced. Get people the training, education, health care and support they need, and they will become productive. Drive them into poverty and they will become less productive and many will die.