JEREMY CORBYN dropped Labour’s controversial support for the Tory benefit cap yesterday, saying it caused “social cleansing.”
Mr Corbyn, elected Labour leader on Saturday, won two standing ovations at TUC Congress as he tore into Tory “poverty-deniers.”
And in his first major policy change, he announced it was now Labour’s official position to oppose the benefit cap and Welfare Reform.
New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE



