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Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
JEREMY CORBYN compared David Cameron’s Tory government a “driverless car heading in the wrong direction” yesterday after a Queen’s speech bereft of big ideas.
For all the pomp and ceremony of the state opening of Parliament, the programme for government unveiled was widely viewed as a wafer-thin diversion from Tory divisions over Europe.
And the paucity of policy which inspired Mr Corbyn’s quip saw plans for “autonomous and electric vehicles” promoted to the top of the list of 20 new laws unveiled in Ms Windsor’s address to the Lords.
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
