Labour: the party of celebs, archbishops and technocrats

The New Statesman’s left power list’ is an unflattering selfie of Labour's new elite.

Much of the list is made up of faceless Labour Party technocrats MPs and officials.

But the compilers have tried to liven up these stiffs by sprinkling the list with the contemporary stardust of celebrity.

At the dizzying heights of No4, only just behind the top Labour leaders, sits Martin Lewis.

Up at No7, it’s Sue Gray, the top civil-service official responsible for the Partygate inquiry that brought down Boris Johnson.

At No27 on the left power list, another establishment figure is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

The New Statesman praises Welby as a bold critic of the central tenets of Tory policy.