Toxic virus or Taleban: it’s funny how the mild-mannered Liz Kendall has attracted for her Blairite associations the most violently pejorative terms. Hardly had the Labour leadership contest begun before her allies were being called ‘Taleban New Labour’.
No one thought New Labour was really much like the Taleban. That’s why the metaphor was effective: it suggested generalised maleficence.
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