After the excitement of Keir Starmer’s enforced reshuffle, and the revelations that finally forced the sacking of Peter Mandelson, can voters withstand the drawn-out hysteria of a Labour deputy leadership campaign?
I don’t think so. No disrespect to the two surviving aspirants, Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell, but Labour – for the nation’s welfare, for its own party interests and for those of the prospective future office holder – should take the chance to abolish the post and snuff out the campaign with it.
