BRITAIN’S communists have welcomed the Tory Party’s crushing defeat at the general election, saying it should raise the morale, expectations and demands of millions of working-class people.

But Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths warned that Labour’s so-called landslide was based on a fragile minority slice of popular support.

“Under Keir Starmer's rightwards-shifting leadership, his party has lost three million votes compared with the 2017 general election and more than half a million since 2019,” he told the Communist Party’s executive committee today.