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Labour leader Keir Starmer during the Labour Party local elections campaign launch at the Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology in Dudley, March 28, 2024
LABOUR has disappeared as a representative force in the east Lancashire borough of Pendle after every elected councillor quit the party.
All 10 Labour members serving on Pendle Borough Council resigned on Monday, as did a further 10 from the town councils of Nelson and Brierfield, two of the communities in the district.
The councillors cited national party bullying and interference as reasons for resigning, although several are already on record as denouncing Labour’s position on the Gaza crisis.
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
