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Len McCluskey
LABOUR’S position on Britain’s European Union membership is an “honourable objective” that “must not be abandoned,” Len McCluskey said today, amid mounting calls for the party to back a second referendum.
After the announcement of the European Parliament election results, senior Labour figures Richard Burgon, Laura Pidcock and Ian Lavery also jumped in to publicly defend the party’s position, which is to honour the 2016 referendum result and deliver a Brexit that puts jobs and workers’ rights first.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn torday confirmed that his priority remains a general election.
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
