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BRITAIN’S labour movement must remain “vigilant” and put itself on a “war footing,” Labour MP Ian Mearns told the RMT AGM yesterday.
The backbencher told delegates that his party’s radical 2017 manifesto could form the foundations of a “ground war” to “save Britain, save our families from the wreckage and the carnage being heaped upon us by the Tory Party.”
He said that behind the “unholy mess” of arguments over Brexit, “Parliament does trundle on almost like a zombie,” suggesting that the Tories’ lack of a Commons majority was limiting the government to legislating on areas of minor concern.
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY