内容摘要：The way Diane Abbott has been treated stands in awkward contrast to the way a string of Tories, including Natalie Elphicke, Dan Poulter and Mark Logan, have been welcomed into Labour with open arms in recent weeks.

The way Diane Abbott has been treated stands in awkward contrast to the way a string of Tories, including Natalie Elphicke, Dan Poulter and Mark Logan, have been welcomed into Labour with open arms in recent weeks.

And, as one senior Labour MP suggested to me, the risk is the public will not come away with the impression that Starmer is different to Corbyn, they will just see a big, nasty row. Not ideal when Keir Starmer wants also to attack the Tories for fighting amongst themselves.Does this saga also risk Keir Starmer sowing bad seeds for the future?

A powerful figure in the Labour movement told me “some solid, middle of the road people are unhappy, people they need to keep their head when things get tough further on. There will be blowback”.Labour have been miles ahead in the polls for many months, “they should just chill,” says another, “they are more paranoid than they need to be”.It’s suggested by that source that provoking a row over the exit of a few of Jeremy Corbyn’s fellow travellers is making the classic political mistake, fighting the last war.

If Keir Starmer is on the brink of Number 10, as the polls still suggest, maybe the logic of going after the remnants of the Corbyn regime is past its sell by date.He has been fighting as Labour leader to show he is safe, different to the Tories but not too different. Promising change, but sensible and credible, designed to provide reassurance to voters who’d previously chosen the Conservatives, to broaden the party’s appeal.

But the next Parliament may well present him with a completely different political terrain, with less Tory pressure and more from the “broader Left”, in his own party and from the Lib Dems, Greens, SNP and Plaid too.

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