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The new Prime Minister does not have a mandate from the people
As Boris Johnson is crowned leader of the Tory Party and our next Prime Minister, we print LAURA PIDCOCK’S speech to the Not My Prime Minister People’s Assembly rally at Downing Street
Boris Johnson

IT IS 2019, brothers and sisters, and there are 14 million people in poverty. There are 1.5 million destitute. Most people are poorer now in real terms than they were 10 years ago.

All over the UK people are living with some kind of fear — fear of the banks, fear of the government, fear for their very future. 

Globally the UN predicts that there will be 200 million climate refugees by 2050 — so don’t you tell me that this system is working for our people. 

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