It’s not just Ed Miliband making a comeback under Sir Keir: now the former Labour leader’s biggest fan has signed up to join the Starmer army too. Back in 2015, ‘Milifandom’ briefly swept the internet when it looked like the Doncaster MP could defeat David Cameron in that year’s general election.
The cult movement was started by then 17 year-old Abby Tomlinson, who became quite a star during the campaign, following a spat with Louise Mensch and a number of opinion pieces written about her strange obsession. Now in her mid-twenties, she has since finished school and university and done stints at Hope not Hate and left-wing news site JOE, which had a run-in with Labour HQ during the Batley by-election last year.
But it seems that Tomlinson hasn’t let that deter her from restarting the campaign to get another Labour leader into Downing Street. For this month she became the party’s new digital content manager, pumping out tweets, graphics and messages across social media to try to sell Sir Keir to the masses. ‘Next stop number 10!!’ she declared on LinkedIn.
Only time will tell if Starmer does better in that respect than Miliband…
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