'Labour at war': Papers make miserable reading for Corbyn as Ken row rumbles on

The Labour party knew that the row over Ken Livingstone’s suspension was not going to disappear overnight. And this morning’s papers show that this story will be bubbling along for some time. All of this comes at a dreadful time for Labour with just days to go until Britain goes to the polls. In particular, it will be interesting to see how these front pages could have an impact on London’s mayoral race. Sadiq Khan has acted swiftly to distance himself from what happened. But with this very public row not likely to go anywhere any time soon, whether this undermining of Labour’s credibility affects Khan remains to be seen. Here’s what the papers had to say about yesterday’s day to forget for Ken:

The Daily Mail described the row as ‘a civil war’. The paper also told of ‘bitter infighting’ and suggested that Labour’s leader Jeremy Corbyn had been ‘reluctant’ to act in suspending Ken – a fact that is likely to give this story extra mileage than it might have had if Corbyn had acted more swiftly.