Ah, this explains it. I was wondering how some random person who won an off-cycle election could just jump into leadership like that. But it seems that he had the leadership support already, and the election was engineered to make him eligible.
I was curious as to why none of the already elected Labour MPs would get the job. I guess none of them want it. Let’s see if he lasts longer than my salad.
They’re all widely seen as either tainted by Starmer, not good enough, or too new (as about half of them came in at the last election 2 years ago). There are some who have ambition, but not sure if they’ll have the support necessary to challenge.
Ah, this explains it. I was wondering how some random person who won an off-cycle election could just jump into leadership like that. But it seems that he had the leadership support already, and the election was engineered to make him eligible.
I was curious as to why none of the already elected Labour MPs would get the job. I guess none of them want it. Let’s see if he lasts longer than my salad.
They’re all widely seen as either tainted by Starmer, not good enough, or too new (as about half of them came in at the last election 2 years ago). There are some who have ambition, but not sure if they’ll have the support necessary to challenge.
The too news generally come under tainted by starmer - there was a lot of parachuting and overriding CLPs in the last election.