Stricken

"Look, look," shrieks Lisa Nandy, "I am on a picket line, and Keir Starmer has not sacked me."

Pull the other one.

The reaction to the sacking of Sam Tarry was far beyond the worst fears of Starmer and his entourage.

The Labour Party is more terrified than at any point in the past that the trade unions are about to turn off the cash tap.

As it should be. And as they should.