The news that James Purnell is to stand down as an MP in the forthcoming election is a major surprise. Firstly, he is one of the standard bearers for the New Labour project, secondly he may have been a future leader of the party.
The fact that he is no longer interested makes me think that he is giving up on Labour for a generation. Maybe he sees that the project is already lost and that Labour will make a left turn after the next election, which he expects them to lose.
It might have been better if he’d taken the opportunity to defect to the Tories, as a Blairite who pushed through so called Wisconsin styled benefit reform he may be able to fit in. He’d also have given Brown a bloody nose. Oh well!
Squiffy.
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