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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti Senior political correspondent

Compass chief says he faces Labour expulsion and attacks party ‘tyranny’

Neal Lawson
Neal Lawson said he had been a Labour party member for 44 years. Photograph: Neal Lawson

Keir Starmer has been accused of presiding over a Labour party obsessed with “petty tyranny”, as the head of the centre-left pressure group Compass claimed he faced expulsion as a member after 44 years.

In a move that will reignite concerns of overzealous factionalism on the part of the Labour leader’s allies, Neal Lawson said they were determined to maintain a “domineering power” that had even left some MPs “cowed by the fear that they will be next”.

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