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LABOUR’S position on the EU risks a gap opening up between the party and the traditional labour movement, the director of a black and minority ethnic (BME) charity said at Merthyr Rising.
Voice4Change director Kunle Olulode told the Is Lexit Possible? meeting that he grew up in a family of Nigerian origin “steeped in Labour history.”
He also said that he remembered the 1975 EEC referendum, which demoted Britain’s relationship with the Commonwealth.
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON
This by-election could plausibly see both Reform and Labour defeated — but splitting the left insurgent vote would put that at risk, argues CHRIS WILLIAMSON
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN