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It is fascinating to observe the national media’s concern for the good of the Labour Party.

Their commitment to the Party choosing the ’right’ leader is so reassuring, particularly after the vile, personalised, lying attacks on the outgoing leader by virtually all of them.

So we, as socialists, should be heartened to see so many column inches and so much airtime devoted to who comes next.

Maybe the billionaires who control 95% of the media sat down and made a New Year’s resolution? No, I don’t think so either.

The reality is they are desperate to avoid someone with the same policies as Jeremy Corbyn and are trying to convince us that those policies lost Labour the election when we all know it had much more to do with Brexit and the lies about Corbyn.

I talked to friends who live in some of those ‘safe leave’ seats and they were virtually unanimous in saying policies were definitely not what lost the election.

What we need is a new leader committed to continue to fight for those socialist policies - policies so many people have been waiting for all their lives.

So many journalists, from right across the political spectrum suggest Sir Keir Starmer is the man to save Labour. I understand Blairites and Tories wanting him because, let’s be clear, he is the modern-day Neil Kinnock, who in 1983 took over after the defeat of Michael Foot.

Starmer claims Corbyn’s manifesto was ‘overloaded’ with socialist policies and that is what he wants to change.

As Director of Public Prosecutions he proposed benefit cheats should face 10 years in prison. Yes benefit cheating is wrong, but there was never a suggestion about tackling the tax dodging of the rich which costs us a thousand times more than those on paltry benefits resorting to lies to claim more.

I understand those on the Right of the Labour Party wanting a new Kinnock. I certainly understand the Tories wanting Starmer. But any socialist tempted to vote for him should give their head a shake.

I remember how Kinnock deserted Liverpool and the miners, and I remember Tony Benn’s words too: ‘Kinnock has a Thatcherite interpretation of the working class’.

Sir Keir Starmer didn’t vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership elections and will have no loyalty to his policies. For me, he is Kinnock 2020.