Oh, I understand fully what Starmer is up to. He most definitely is 'purging' the left in an attempt to prove to the so-called middle classes that New, NEW, Labour (we already had New Labour under Blair) is not such a terrible prospect and that the militants and loony left wing have all gone. What he fails to understand is that Abbot will win because Hackney North loves her. I predict Corbyn will retain Islington North too. So, with his hamfisted way of trying to get rid of them, he might as well have shot himself in the foot. If anything, he's made their positions even stronger.

Raynor is the anomaly. She's presentable and slightly more intelligent than some of them, yet her politics are stuck in the late 1970s—mid-80s.