COMMUNIST Party chairwoman Ruth Styles has launched an all-round attack on the priorities of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government.

She accused it of putting the interests of the energy monopolies, arms corporations and the private healthcare giants before those of the millions of poor and vulnerable people in society.

In a report to the CP’s political committee on Tuesday evening, Ms Styles also  condemned the £13 billion pledged by British governments so far to prolong the Ukraine war.

She noted the heavy carbon footprint of arms production and use, much of which is not counted in emissions estimates. 

Britain’s communists labelled the new Britain-Mauritius agreement on the Chagos Islands an “anti-democratic imperialist carve-up” imposed on Chagossian families evicted from their homeland 50 years ago.

And they called for an end to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of “mass murder” in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and southern Lebanon.

Ms Styles deplored Sir Keir’s complicity in Israel’s “genocidal war” on Gaza and echoed the TUC demand for a ban on all British arms exports to the extreme right-wing Tel Aviv regime.