This morning, as I walked to the station, I made a short stop at the bookies to lay £5 on Lisa Nandy to become the next Labour leader. I am not alone in my instincts. Neil Kinnock declared earlier today: “If I were a gambling man, I’d spend a tenner on Nandy”. Indeed, while various polls of Labour members show either Keir Starmer or Rebecca Long-Bailey ahead, with Nandy in single digits, many in the know see her as the dark horse of the Labour leadership race – far from a certainty but worth laying money on while the odds are long.
University exam marking boycott is a disgrace
Robbing students of the ability to graduate after years of Covid disruption is shameful – but lecturers aren’t the only ones to blame.