Just over a month on from her comfortable victory in the Labour Deputy Leadership race, Lucy Powell’s footprint on Labour’s website and social media channels is virtually non-existent. Aside from a 60-word article shared on the day of the announcement (under ‘member updates’), the only mention of Powell’s title is buried on the NEC page. She appeared on the party’s Instagram profile the day she won, and hasn’t returned since. Almost as if she wasn’t the top brass’s preferred candidate…
The ‘Labour people’ tab doesn’t mention Powell by name, or even that Labour has a Deputy Leader. The prominent photo on the front of that page used to feature Sir Keir, Rachel Reeves, and Powell’s predecessor Angela Rayner. Now it’s just the first two. Even the ‘latest’ news tab, which was updated this week following the Winter Budget, somehow forgot to mention that the Labour Party elected a new Deputy Leader last month. Surely, of all places, that’s where you’d expect to see something…
