Starmer expert once accused him of taking Labour down a 'dead end' 

Sir Keir Starmer has turned to a strategy expert who once lambasted him for lack of vision and 'profoundly naive' reliance on focus groups.

Tom Kibasi, former director of Left-wing IPPR think-tank, has reportedly been drafted in to work with Starmer chief of staff Morgan McSweeney.

Mr Kibasi, a self-styled architect of Sir Keir's successful Labour leadership bid in 2020, is understood to be working on a specific strategy project for several months.

But the move has stunned some Labour MPs given Mr Kibasi's outspoken criticisms in the year after he became Labour leader.

Writing in Feburary, 2021, Mr Kibasi accused Sir Keir of taking his party down 'a political dead end.