Cold, cynical and paranoid: if this is Labour in opposition, what will it look like in power? | John Harris

Keir Starmer's party is pushing the idea that you can pursue progressive ends through nasty means to its limit On both the right and left of the Labour party, one article of faith has always seemed to be set in stone: the idea that you can pursue progressive dreams using no end of skulduggery and nastiness, and never worry about the contradictions. Whether they have been Blairites, Brownites, disciples of Jeremy Corbyn or servants of Keir Starmer, a certain kind of Labour high-up has always thri...