Starmer set up own Labour leadership team six months before Corbyn’s 2019 defeat

A new biography has revealed how the Labour leader and his allies planned his challenge in advance of the election

Keir Starmer had assembled a leadership team about six months before the Ddecember 2019 general election that led to Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation as Labour leader.

The team, codenamed the “Arlington Group”, began planning in earnest how Starmer could capture the leadership from June of that year – including a detailed breakdown of how Labour’s membership could be convinced to support him.