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Nick Robinson: Labour's London squeeze exposes a fragmented British politics

www.bbc.com·Nick Robinson·about 1 month ago
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5 hours ago Nick Robinson Today programme presenter BBC "Do you know the result which is keeping them awake in Number 10?," a Cabinet minister recently asked me. Scotland, I asked? Wales? No, I was told. The answer was London. The reason Sir Keir Starmer and his team are waiting so nervously for the results of next week's council elections in London is that it represents Labour's new heartland. One in seven Labour MPs represents constituencies in the capital. The prime minister is a London member of parliament, as is his deputy, David Lammy, as well as the man who wants Starmer's job, Health Secretary Wes Streeting. The Secretary State for Housing, Steve Reed, completes the quartet of powerful London MPs in the Cabinet. A significant percentage of the party's activists, and the members who choose the party's leaders, live in the capital. Losses here will hurt Labour's core.…

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