Labour’s leader in Scotland, Anas Sarwar has faced criticism for demanding the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer over the Mandelson/Epstein scandal. As the week has progressed though, he’s looking all the stronger for it, says Kevin McKenna.

The London headquarters of the party currently masquerading as Labour has become home to political jackals. Occasionally, they’re forced to break cover in broad daylight, so that they’re plumage becomes visible. This usually consists of a satchel slung over the thin shoulders of an ill-fitting suit. Shirts and ties are treated as evidence of cultural delinquency and have come to be replaced by collared tee-shirts.

Often too, there’s the hint of a wispy five o’clock shadow in the male of the species.

Morgan McSweeney, Labour’s former Chief of Staff had been the latest in a long line of these chisellers who’ve been making their homes inside the party since Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell were removing all hints of authentic Socialism from its being.

If William Golding had written a follow-up novel to Lord of the Flies featuring those lupine lost boys in young adulthood he could have set it in the modern version of the UK Labour Party.

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Like his philosophical guru and mentor, Lord Mandelson, Mr McSweeney and his feral chums have been credited with delivering Labour’s landslide victory at the 2024 UK General Election. This delusional claim evaporates on contact with the daylight.

It relies on the rest of us believing that they had discovered some sorcery that captured the mood of the electorate. The reality of course was somewhat different. Such was the chaotic malevolence of the Tories under Boris Johnson and Liz Truss that........

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