Keir Starmer has been hit with an overdue public humiliation, after he expelled the newly elected boss of one of Labour's biggest unions! Right, so Keir Starmer expelled Andrea Egan from the Labour Party and then, without missing a beat, congratulated her this week on becoming the most powerful trade union leader in the country and said he was looking forward to working with her. You can admire the nerve, if nothing else. Because what that moment actually tells you is not that Labour has made peace with the labour movement, but that it has lost the ability to control it and is hoping nobody notices. Egan has just been elected general secretary of UNISON, the biggest union in Britain and one of Labour’s biggest donors, by a clear margin, albeit on a turnout so low it has given ammunition to right wing critics suddenly deciding to bemoan democracy  ...