faction fight

Mr Leonard added: "If any party representative thinks an internal faction fight is more important than this agenda, then they will have to answer to party members and the voters whom we serve".

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has said he "does not recognise" the claim that Jeremy Corbyn's team wanted a "faction fight" in the Labour Party.

“I don’t want the Labour party to become a faction fight,” Lansman said in a 2016 interview with the Guardian.

To oversimplify a bit, the question of Vladimir Putin’s influence on the 2016 presidential election has become a litmus test for where one stands in the faction fight between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wings of the American left.

But beneath that contentious position lies a deeper gulf of perception that isn’t exactly about the divide between left and right, or about the reductive Bernie-Hillary faction fight that continues to divide the Democratic Party and the broader left coalition.