The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Keir Starmer – a principle-free zone
With right-wing Labour all but guaranteed to win the next general election, we need to turn apathy into anger, argues CHELLEY RYAN
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Labour leader Keir Starmer discuss politics during the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain Conference in central London, July 18, 2023
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KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
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Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
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KEIR STARMER is the luckiest political leader in history. Or is he the most conniving and ruthless? I actually think both are true.
Like Tony Blair, Starmer is the beneficiary of an imploding Tory Party, general good timing and an exhausted general public desperate for change, no matter how modest. Unlike Blair, Starmer literally threw a general election using a mixture of political guile, manipulation and ruthlessness to put an end to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. He then lied with aplomb to win over the Labour membership to ensure his election as leader.
That’s why for me, Starmer is the worst Labour leader in the party’s history. The most despicable and the most dangerous. He is not the spawn of Blair. He is actually worse than Blair and I say that as someone who despises Blair. He’s certainly more dishonest. He manages to make Boris Johnson look like a man of honesty and integrity.
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