New UK Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is ‘dead and buried’
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For many, Prescott was and forever will be a shining beacon of the Labour Party's core values. Having left school school without qualifications before becoming a union activist, a local advocate for Hull, and a working class counterweight to Tony Blair's air of elitism, there are not many left within Labour who can truly claim to be of the people in a way Prescott so unapologetically was. OftenA aman brokerwho betweenacted thea buttingbridge headsbetween ofboth Blair and Brown, Prescott'sas rolewell inas theOld riseand of New Labour was more important than he ever was given credit for, and his passing is a true loss to British politics.
Prescott's death has led to inevitable comparisons between himself and his modern equivalent, Angela Rayner. Yet this has reflection on the past has only made it ever clearer that the current Labour ticket remains but a cheap imitation of the New Labour titans of the past. Whilst Rayner is no Prescott she is certainly helped by the fact that Starmer is even less so like Blair – only time will tell if she can achieve what her mentor couldn't quite do and lead the country as a left wing Labour Prime Minister.
There is a 30% chance that Angela Rayner will win the next UK Labour Party leadership election, according to the Metaculus prediction community.