Steve Howell was Labour’s deputy director of strategy and communication in 2017 and is the author of Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics. His forthcoming book is Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony.
“The people whose company I enjoy most are those from a strictly bourgeois background,” Peter Mandelson wrote to his childhood friend Steve Howell in 1973. It was, Howell observes, deeply ironic that these connections would ultimately bring him down.
Britain’s Labour prime minister is severely wounded by his disastrous appointment of a Jeffrey Epstein–associated US ambassador and could soon be ousted. But the party needs more than a makeover.
A new book by the journalist Paul Holden exposes the lengths that reactionaries within the Labour Party, many of whom now serve in the current government, went to sabotage the electoral prospects of Jeremy Corbyn.