General Election 2024: Who is challenging Labour from the Left?

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is overwhelmingly favoured to win Britain’s 2024 general election, and not just win but potentially gain a huge governing majority with the expected electoral implosion of the Conservative Party.

However, Starmer has been criticised by many both in and out of the Labour Party over the dramatic rightward shift of the Labour Party under his leadership and an ever-increasing intolerance of dissent and criticism, particularly from leftwing viewpoints and individuals.

Despite running on a ‘continuity Corbyn’ platform Starmer has abandoned every single pledge he made when running in the Labour leadership election in 2020. Starmer has also ditched a wide range of policy commitments. Tens of thousands of people have left the Labour Party in protest at his leadership, unrelenting factional attacks, and increasing despair at the prospect of the kind of policies Starmer will enact as prime minister with Labour in government.

There is unlikely to be a new leftwing party to challenge Labour, but growing discontent will mean that the 2024 general election will see an unprecedented challenge to Labour from the political left from independents and local community groups. Voters on the left in Scotland and Wales have the SNP and Plaid Cymru to vote for, and the Green Party…