Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Equity in buoyant mood
PAUL W FLEMING reports on the progress made by the 93-year-old union
THERE are few things I’m more proud of than being general secretary of Equity, but one of them may be being a Brummie.
The Workshop of the World may well be renowned as the birthplace of industry, a municipal model, and modern suffrage but the City of A Thousand Trades and the region of which it is the capital are also crucibles of creativity.
Equity’s Midlands Region includes the birthplaces of Byron, Bhangra, and Black Sabbath. There’s no Shakespeare, no Julie Walters and no Benjamin Zephaniah without the Heart of England.
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