Was Keir Starmer’s leaving party the boozy birth of a new Labour force?

Keir Starmer's exit from Downing Street was marked by a leaving party at a London pub that's already making headlines. The Guardian reports that dozens of Labour ministers and aides gathered at the Grafton in Kentish Town, where a ten-thousand-pound bar tab was run up alongside what the story describes as considerable anger. But the occasion may portend something larger — ex-ministers are already discussing how they might cooperate as Labour looks toward its future.

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