The Labour candidate who won the Wellingborough by-election once called for a second Brexit referendum and open borders.
Genevieve Kitchen signed a letter in which she also called for a nuclear weapons ban, according to reports by The Sun.
A Labour spokesman told The Sun that the letter was five years old and that Ms Kitchen now “believes the people have spoken” on Brexit.
Ms Kitchen, 28, grew up near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire and attended university in London.
She took 46 per cent of the vote at Thursday night’s count and overturned a Conservative majority of 18,500, a result she said she was “ecstatic” about.
Ms Kitchen represented the Boleyn ward as a councillor for Newham between 2018 and 2022 and was previously a charity fundraiser.
Ms Kitchen shows that the old motto of “New Labour, New danger” still holds, or maybe “new labour, old danger” would be more appropriate. On the face of it, Labours grey man Starmer claims that they have rooted out the extreme left Corbynites from the party, and they are now a new Labour, free of that period dogma and hatred,
But recent events that have seen several Labour candidates deselected or under investigation show that many of the problems under Corbyn are still there if less visible in public.
Labour spokespeople claim that Kitchens’s commitment to what was in this letter she signed is old, and her views have changed. This seems unlikely given the types of beliefs she held, views usually held by the zealots of the extreme left variety.
Stammer may have more in common with the Blairiete faction of Labour, but many of his new generation of potential MPs are more ideologically aligned with Corbyn.
Even under Blair, who, like Starmer, claimed that he would control the UK’s borders, we saw a massive influx of foreign nationals into this country. Blair’s decision to throw open our Borders to citizens of the new East and Central European countries when they joined the EU. At the same time, other EU nations restricted their immigration and saw 112,000 of these new EU nationals enter the UK in 2007 alone.
For anyone worried about the levels of legal and illegal immigration to our Nation, alarm bells should already be ringing, given some of Starmer’s proposed “solutions” to the “small boats” crisis. Starmer is allegedly floating the idea that in return for the right to return some of the arrivals by small boats on our southern shores, the UK would be prepared to agree to take a share of the migrants entering the EU on a quota system, in the same way, that EU members potentially agree to do. Given that the UK population equates to 13% of Europe’s current population, this could see up to 182,000 migrants accepted annually under this quota system.
Starmer has also stated that he would not be looking to rejoin the EU if we can trust what he says, but wants to work far more closely with the EU in the future. This could potentially see a deal that would see immigration rules relaxed for EU citizens—potentially leading to a second influx of EU nationals as happened under Blair, especially if EU enlargement goes ahead in the Balkans and further afield.
Of course, we shall have to wait and see if Labour win the coming General election, but the signs are vital that they will.
Starmer has made much of the fact that Labour, unlike the Tories, are united, and there is none of the vicious infighting we see within the Tory party within their ranks. On the face of it, that may seem true. Still, the attitudes of the like of Ms KItchen and other Labour members show that maybe the extreme left are just biding their time hiding behind a veneer of New Labour respectability and that Starmer will be in for a rude awakening after the glow of electoral victory wears off. The extreme left takes off its mask.
