BJP out of the Labour Party!
The BJP announces Neeraj Patil (in black jacket) has joined it at a press conference in Karnataka, March 2014 There has been significant disquiet about left-wing candidates excluded from Labour Party parliamentary selections on absurd pretexts. Starmer’s leadership has grotesquely abused the notion of “due diligence” — disqualifying candidates because of bad past behaviour — to rule out even left-wingers who under the rules should automatically make the list because they have multiple union nominations. So far, the unions are making little fuss. But in Camberwell and Peckham (South London)...