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Labour’s task is to seize this moment
Britain is crying out for change and investment in our crumbling infrastructure – will Labour have the courage to commit to the investment so desperately needed, asks JON TRICKETT MP
NHS junior doctors taking part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham, April 2023

LAST week’s parade of competing Tory ghouls, strange apparitions and ideological monsters revealed a deep unease about the party’s prospects among leading figures.

But one thing stood out clearly — PM Rishi Sunak’s speech which set out the need to draw a line under the record of his party’s own period of government.

So even the Conservatives after 13 years of government recognise that they need to offer a rupture with the recent past.

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