I've never heard of that before, do you have any evidence for it?There is common belief/acceptance that a number of Tories joined the Labour membership just to get Corbyn in, seeing him as an easy opponent.
Unfortunately anything further left that centre-right neoliberalism will be misrepresented by the media.If I was Labour, I would wait until this contest is over and then stand on a firmly anti-Truss platform, and puts clear water between themselves and the Tories - but from a centre-left rather than hard-left perspective. A party that fights reactionary right-wing politics. A party that stands up for those who want to see good public services, who prefer public spending to tax cuts, who want to see the unemployed treated with respect and have appropriate benefits, who don't want to demonise the "woke" and immigrants, who support immigration from the EU and better relations with the EU, who believe that family status is irrelevant, and so on. All, in my view, solid centre-left policies.
Last edited: