A ROW has erupted over Labour blocking Left-wing candidates from standing in the next general election. Former MP Emma Dent Coad was stopped yesterday from running as the candidate in Kensington. She won the seat from the Tories in 2017, but lost in 2019 by 150 votes.
Dent Coad told us today she “wasn’t really given a fair go” by Labour’s selection panel, and was read “a list of my sins” at a selection meeting last week. She said some of the allegations against her were inaccurate, and blamed “machinery around” leader Keir Starmer for the decision. Dent Coad claimed one of the panelists on the National Executive Committee who blocked her had liked a post by one of her opponents on Twitter, which she said was “grossly unfair”, “particularly given somebody had gone through everything I’ve said for the last 15 years”. Last year, she said Starmer’s Labour was “toxic” and didn’t know what it stands for now.
