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Labour and the corporate lobbyists
SOLOMON HUGHES charts some cosy links between Labour insiders and big business interests
PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments
Labour, like the Tories, sees rising mental ill health simply as a spending problem — but it reflects a diseased society, argues DR DAVID MATTHEWS
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
LABOUR’S leadership is now actively trying to disappoint Keir Starmer fans by jettisoning plans like his £28 billion “green prosperity investment.” While even Starmer-supporting pundits now feel sad about Labour’s ever-shrinking “offer,” one group remains enthusiastic: corporate lobbyists.
The lobbying firms, who act as hired guns for corporations seeking political influence are rounding up even more Labour insiders to join their posses.
Former Sadiq Khan adviser Ben Johnson is one of the latest examples of this rush of former Labour folk saddling up to ride out with the lobbyists. In February Johnson left London City Hall to join lobbying firm The Blakeney Group. The firm boasted about the hire to clients under the headline “Labour policy chief joins Blakeney.” Johnson joins some other Labour insiders-turned-lobbyists at Blakeney. Former Labour MP Melanie Onn is “senior counsel” at Blakeney, while “former Labour senior policy adviser, Dan Hogan” — a former “aide to Jonathan Reynolds” according to the firm — is also a Blakeney director.
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