MOTHER’S PRIDE
LABOUR’s largest backbench organisation is aiming to “confront vested interests” in politics by forming a partnership with a think tank controlled by Praful Nargund, the Labour candidate who lost to Jeremy Corbyn at the general election and seems to rely heavily on his mother for his successes.
The Starmer-loyalist Labour Growth Group, with over 90 supporters, is larger than any of the party’s more rebellious backbench alliances. After conference its co-chair, Chris Curtis MP, announced a partnership with the Good Growth Foundation (GGF) to “bring together the political reach of the largest backbench grouping in Labour with the research firepower and policy capacity of one of the fastest-rising think tanks on the progressive left”.