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Johnson may be going – but defeating his policies is the bigger battle ahead
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the labour movement must provide the political alternative notably absent at Westminster

BORIS JOHNSON is going. A divided Tory Party will battle away the summer as ministers battle for the crown.

We can already hear the lines from Labour: that the country cannot afford these divisions, we need a functioning government.

Actually our problem is the opposite. Through a constant stream of scandals, Boris Johnson’s government has not been distracted from its legislative programme, one bent on building a permanently more authoritarian state. 

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