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Political doppelgangers
Starmer’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap is the latest reminder that child poverty is a bipartisan issue for Westminster’s governing duopoly, argues Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS
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For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
THE furore over Keir Starmer’s announcement that he will refuse to scrap the two-child benefit cap has gone eerily quiet for now.
While it represents yet another 180 degree pivot away from any semblance of decency for the Labour Party, it also serves as a reminder of the ongoing blurring of boundaries between Labour and the Tories.
Of course, the Labour front bench would insist otherwise, but their propensity to play Tory doppelganger is easily seen by even the most apolitical of people.
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