Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Deselected, disowned, cast out: why Starmer keeps up his war on the left
As the prospect of a Labour government looks likely — according to the polls at least — ANDREW MURRAY explains why the party leadership are still hell-bent on defenestrating the remaining left-wing MPs

EVERYONE has now noticed that left-wing campaigners are being more or less entirely excluded from nomination for Labour parliamentary candidates in winnable seats.
Local Labour members are not rejecting left candidates — Keir Starmer’s apparatus at party headquarters, seizing on any justification, however absurd, is ruling them out of consideration.
Emma Dent Coad, who actually won Kensington for Labour in 2017 for the first time ever, is only the best-known of those victimised. It is estimated that of 40 decent Labour prospects at the next general election where a candidate has been chosen, only one is from the left. Black men in particular are being blocked.
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