Going nowhere fast
If 2020 was a year of bitter disappointment and demoralisation for the Labour left, then 2021 is shaping up to be no better, writes James Harvey
The questions that many party members began asking in the aftermath of the December 2019 election defeat, Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader in April 2020 and the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn in October 2020 continue to be unacknowledged, let alone answered by Labour’s official left. As the witch-hunt against the left intensifies, the silence of those MPs and organisations expected to lead the fightback remains deafening. This
de facto complicity and failure of leadership, combined with reports of large-scale resignations and growing inactivity, suggests that the demoralisation and the disillusion of the Labour left in Constituency Labour Parties has reached crisis levels.