Jennifer Arcuri says any trade help she got not down to Johnson links – as it happened
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Andrew Adonis, the peer who is probably Labour's most Blairite parliamentarian, has also come out against the rule changes proposed by Starmer.
Changing electoral system to choose Labour leader won't make a difference. Systems don't produce good leaders & good leaders win anyway. Blair would have won in any system 1994; an electoral college like this elected Ed Miliband 2010; there was no good candidate against Corbyn
Labour needs good leaders and good policies - not a load of inconsequential rule changes
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