Labour’s battle of ideas (opens in new tab)

And so, Wes Streeting has fired the first shot in a “battle of ideas” within the Labour Party. Others will call it a civil war. Yet more will ask why such a conflict wasn’t waged when Labour was in opposition, when it was reeling from 2019’s defeat but determined to rise from the ashes of Brexit Britain’s Johnsonite “realignment”. Surely if there were a time for genuine, internal soul-searching, it was after the election in which the working-class heartlands rejected Corbynism in favor of Bor...