Starmer’s fellow 2015 MP brought the PM’s position close to the brink before bottling it, says Nimco Ali – who contested the same seat as her in 2017 and has a singular view of the woman who nearly took the nuclear option L abour’s devastating local election results triggered the usual Westminster panic: anonymous briefings, leadership speculation and MPs suddenly discovering their principles. Then Catherine West entered the conversation and briefly became a household name. What started with