Ann Black, who you have probably never heard of, is no longer on the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC). She’d been re-elected every year for the best part of two decades and served as chairwoman of the party for a year. A leftwinger, Black has been a party member for the best part of 40 years.

Yasmine Dar has been in Labour for only five or six years. Unlike Black, she had been endorsed by the Momentum party-within-a-party for its nine-person slate and this week topped the NEC poll. She received nearly 90,000 votes; Black got about half as many.

I know nothing to the discredit of Dar, save this. For the past three years she has attended an annual celebration of the Iranian