Like you, I regretted Starmer’s sacking of Rebecca, but the truth is that neither you, nor I, nor anyone else here, knows the full, unvarnished truth about what went on behind closed doors at Labour HQ, or in the Leader of the Opposition’s Office in Westminster, so I try not to leap to judgment. Whatever, I’m hoping that the fact she was put up to appear on Politics Live representing the LP today is an indication of her star being in the ascendence once more. Hopefully, Starmer and his inner circle have realised that there are those on the Left of the Party, Rebecca being just one, who have much to contribute as the next GE comes closer.

And as someone who is not, has never been, and will probably never be, a member of the LP, I have no idea what Labour members actually mean when they ‘call for unity’ (and I strongly suspect that what you state above as ‘fact’ is actually nothing more than guesswork in support of the defensive position you’ve taken over the Left’s failure to gain real and permanent traction in the Party in recent times).

However, what I do know after fifty years of working in senior management in Engineering, Mining, Shipping, and Plastics Processing, are the true meanings of the words ‘co-operate’, ‘compromise’, and ‘unity’, and when I use them in regard to the LP, I mean them in precisely their true meaning - nothing more, nothing less, and certainly not in the skewed sense of the words you always seem to infer whenever this issue is raised.