It was a great piece of design. It needs to come back, perhaps as an EV.

One hopes that the getaway vehicle was a Nissan S-Cargo.

Yes, but what's different about the current crisis is that moderate activists who supported Starmer pre-GE are bailing. Many of them were stalwarts of the leaflet & doorstep. Maybe the leadership are cynically hoping they'll return to the fold before the next GE to keep Ref out. Good luck with that.

It's a huge pain for parents trying to pass on modest wealth to look after disabled children for the rest of their lives, especially when state social care is so precarious.

Free movement is a benefit not a cost.

Good to see the BL's problems finally getting attention. But research libraries are also crucial components of our national STEM infrastructure, managing access to digital content, open access repositories, and research data. Libraries are a lot more than the laboratories of the arts & humanities.

This anonymous "spokesman" crap was the subject of deserved criticism under Tories, and it's got worse under Labour.

He's also spitting in the face of the Labour members who constitute the bulk of the legendary ground army. That army is already sadly depleted.

Not to mention the middle class professionals who run many Labour branches, draft and deliver their leaflets, and canvass for them.