Is there anyone a ‘changed Labour’ wouldn’t accept?

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Surely, new MPs must have some loose, tenuous, hint of a link to whatever values and principles you hold as a political party? (PA)

Reading John Rentoul today I can totally understand why, for short-term tactical gain, Labour would accept Natalie Elphicke and welcome her defection. But it obviously raises the question of whether there is anyone who a “changed Labour Party” wouldn’t accept? Would Nigel Farage, 30p Lee, Jacob Rees-Mogg or a coach tour from the European Research Group now fit the bill?

Because the point, surely, should be that new MPs must have some loose, tenuous, hint of a link to whatever values and principles you hold as a political party... unless you don’t have any in the first place, in which case come one, come all.

Hopefully, Donald Trump may be free come December to do a photo-op in Florida with a smiling Kier Starmer welcoming him as the new foreign secretary.