OPINION - Keir Starmer's squad are at the Democratic National Convention in force — and this is why

The baggage carousels at O’Hare airport for flights from the UK this week had some intriguing folk waiting for luggage. The Democratic Party’s farewell to Joe Biden as president and coronation of Kamala Harris as candidate in Chicago has attracted key Labour figures observing the transition. Jonathan Ashworth, the former shadow frontbencher who fell to the shock defeat of the July election due to a surge of pro-Gaza activism in his Leicester South constituency and now co-runs the Labour Together think tank, arrived with party general secretary David Evans.