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"We should take the opportunity to abolish the post altogether. It's existence only feeds factional infighting," another MP texts, just ahead of the timetable for the contest being set out.

She was poached from the civil service by Labour to lead Sir Keir Starmer's office as the party prepared for government ahead of the 2024 election, but infighting forced her out within 100 days of victory.

The paper also reported there had been infighting within Unite between supporters of current general secretary Sharon Graham and her predecessor Len McCluskey.

The SDF used to be the country's main opposition outfit, but its influence later dwindled, exacerbated by infighting and the expulsion of several party members in 2023.

But a dispute over a selection in Welsh Labour's power centre of Cardiff - after would-be candidate Owain Williams was rejected - has threatened to reignite infighting and rows in the party.