{"id":145823,"date":"2020-05-27T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/27\/with-an-ally-in-control-of-the-party-machine-keir-starmers-victory-is-complete-sienna-rodgers\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:46:53","slug":"with-an-ally-in-control-of-the-party-machine-keir-starmers-victory-is-complete-sienna-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=145823","title":{"rendered":"With an ally in control of the party machine, Keir Starmer\u2019s victory is complete | Sienna Rodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Evans is not a compromise appointment for general secretary. But will he improve the party culture? The appointment of David Evans as Labour\u2019s general secretary represents another win for Keir Starmer. The leader was sticking his neck out when it was briefed to the press that he had a preferred candidate for the post \u2013 but the gamble has paid off. Jennie Formby, an ally of Jeremy Corbyn, has been replaced by someone who is heavily praised by activists on the right of the party. The Labour left has been thoroughly defeated, and the end of Corbynism is complete.When it first emerged that the leader\u2019s office had a firm favourite for general secretary and his name was David Evans, most of the members on the left of Labour\u2019s national executive committee \u2013 the ruling body that interviews and votes on the applicants \u2013 hadn\u2019t heard of him. They were introduced to the former assistant general secretary by journalists who themselves knew him primarily as the author of a 1999 report. This report described local constituency parties as \u201cdysfunctional\u201d and argued for a \u201cradical overhaul\u201d of the party that could \u201cempower modernising forces within the party and marginalise Old Labour\u201d.&nbsp; Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/27\/keir-starmer-david-evans-labour-general-secretary\" target=\"_blank\">With an ally in control of the party machine, Keir Starmer\u2019s victory is complete | Sienna Rodgers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Evans is not a compromise appointment for general secretary. But will he improve the party culture? The appointment of David Evans as Labour\u2019s general secretary represents another win for Keir Starmer. The leader was sticking his neck out when it was briefed to the press that he had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}