Early skirmishes in Labour race highlight government headache

Angela Rayner Saga’s fluctuation effects continue.

Now, through an official party process, a cacophone of labor sounds, provides public opinion on whether the government is good.

You don’t need to have sinking into a political strategy to understand why some of the Downing Street and its surroundings can really do without this and want as quickly as possible.

So far, we have seen a limited contestant: Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson made a speech to the trade unionists at the Tucus Congress in Brighton and did not refer to the competition.

And left-wing player Bell Ribeiro-Ady interviewed journalists.

The others I talk about will soon be out, but for now, it focuses on visiting the kids and filling their electronic paintings with supporters’ names.

Time is tight and high – it is not easy to bring together 80 people who want to support in a handful of a handful.

However, we have already received an idea of ​​how strange for the government, depending on who did this race in the early stages.

Take Emily Thornberry. Before the general election, Sir Keir Starmer served in the shadow cabinet and is expected to offer a cabinet job in his government after winning the Labor Party.

Such an offer did not come.

Now he’s running to be the leader of the party. A story line with a certain pink opera charm.

And already Thornberry forcibly criticized the government in a single article on social media.

“We have made mistakes and we have to listen. Welfare. Gaza. Settite tax,” he wrote, Archly, “he will not just shake his head,” he added, apparently a government minister Phillipson and Alison McGOVERN is a line for the other candidate.

Imagine Labour’s assistant leader and Thornberry to spend the autumn tax on the weeks before the budget in November.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

First, there are many deputies to support him.

Trying to do this and led to the public in just a few days to complain to the public, the anti-democratic process of Ribeiro-Ady.

In addition, the government criticized the government for not scrapping the benefit limit, and wants to apply full arms embargo and sanctions to Israel and to abolish the ban on Palestinian action.

Of course, it is a campaign that can only take a few days. Let’s see.

So, how many of the candidates are serious competitors and who?

Bridget Phillipson sets out for 80 deputies who already supported him with 44.

Lucy Powell 35 is not far behind.

All of the others are in single numbers.

However, hundreds of labor deputies have not yet supported anyone.

Now the key question, which candidates cleaned this first obstacle and how many are not in the government and the race is more free to criticize on the way to the next stage?

This will be an important factor in shaping the tenor and tone of the following debate and the final winner.