Labour in crisis: Momentum’s massacre of the moderates

Momentum continues to move Labour over to the hard-left.

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Momentum: the grassroots campaign behind Jeremy Corbyn
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"The Labour party faces the greatest crisis in its history," says Roy Hattersley in The Observer. Momentum, the grassroots organisation set up after Jeremy Corbyn's leadership win in 2015, and dedicated to "moving Labour to the far left", is set to win control of Labour's policy, programme and constitution. Momentum dominated this year's conference, and is busy purging the party of moderate MPs and councillors.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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