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Hamish Falconer and the trouble with Labour’s ‘Red Princes’

8 October 2024

5:07 PM

8 October 2024

5:07 PM

The appearance on our television screens of one Hamish Falconer, the newly-elected Labour MP for Lincoln, tells us much more about Keir Starmer’s government than meets the eye.

Falconer is not exactly a household name, but has already been elevated to the role of junior minister in the Foreign Office. He is an ex-pupil of Westminster School and was elected to parliament at his first attempt in July.

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