FRAN HEATHCOTE believes that while the the Chancellor outlined some positive steps, the government does not appreciate the scale of the cost-of-living crisis affecting working-class people, whose lives are blighted by endemic low pay
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
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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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The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM
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