If you want to know quite how great was New Labour’s rupture with the right wing of Old Labour, then consider the Gambling Act 2005.
20 years later, with taxes on the gambling industry under review, the Downing Street Director of Communications is Tim Allan of Strand Partners, which lobbies on behalf of the British Horseracing Authority.
Keir Starmer has admitted to having signed off the appointment of his and the relevant Secretary of State Lisa Nandy’s donor, David Kogan, as Chair of the Independent Football Regulator.
And Councillor Michael Situ, Southwark’s Cabinet Member for Housing who decided not to take any action against Rachel Reeves, has himself been forced to resign for the same offence.
It is the oldest trick in the book, that of being so corrupt that people assumed that they must have missed something, since no one could possibly be that brazen.
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