JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
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‘The left has been winning on the conference floor. It's alive and kicking’
Labour MP Richard Burgon
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RUMOURS of the death of the Labour left have been greatly exaggerated.
That’s what Leeds East MP Richard Burgon is keen to get across when I meet him at Labour conference.
Keir Starmer has had a conference dominated by partial defeat on rule changes, an embarrassing shadow cabinet resignation exposing his meanness on wages and sick pay during a pandemic, repeated victories for left-wing motions on the conference floor from nationalising energy to solidarity with Palestine that the party leader had tried to squash and the possible disaffiliation of one of the party’s founding trade unions.
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