Left MPs put forward ‘serious alternative’ to pandemic response
by Bethany Rielly
LEFT-WING MPs have proposed a series of solutions to recover from the pandemic that provides a “serious alternative” to the current “Tory-created catastrophe.”
The new pamphlet, drawn up by the Socialist Campaign Group, puts forward a wide range of radical changes needed to steer society away from the “impending economic, personal and social disaster” exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis.
Titled Winning the Future, the pamphlet includes articles by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Rebecca Long Bailey among others from the left-wing group of Labour MPs.
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