Chaos within Labour has paused for now, but after the May elections the leadership contest begins in earnest | Morgan Jones

A different kind of stasis waits after the polls: a candidate gridlock where all Starmer’s potential successors are problematic in their own way Westminster politics is currently consumed by the fact that the May elections are next week. On Tuesday night Labour MPs voted down a Tory proposal that would have seen the prime minister referred to the privileges committee over his handling of the Mandelson scandal. Just 15 Labour MPs – mostly long-term critics of the PM – voted for the Tory motion...

By Morgan Jones