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Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to the Backstage Centre, Purfleet, for the launch of Labour's doorstep offer to voters ahead of the general election, May 16, 2024
LABOUR’S “six first steps,” the priority actions it will take when in government, are testimony to the shrivelled state of the party’s ambitions as well as of it’s long post-Corbyn march to the right.
Voters looking for determined action to improve their circumstances and address the ills scaring society will look in vain.
On the economy, Keir Starmer’s “first step” could well be mistaken for immobility. He pledges to be tough on spending and aiming for low taxes, without spelling out how or where the hoped-for “growth” is going to come from.
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless