Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a speech at The Meeting Centre in Hinckley, while on the General Election campaign trail, July 1, 2024
GRIM polls for the Tories suggest electoral wipeout tomorrow, but we cannot be complacent.
Their chaotic campaign doesn’t mean they have “lost their way,” as rightwingers like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Suella Braverman claim while jockeying for post-election position.
It is a wild scramble to distract the public from 14 catastrophic years, in which they have starved the public sector of funds, creating the collapsing service we now see in the NHS, education and across local government; started or fuelled devastating wars, from Libya through Syria to Yemen and Gaza; and engineered a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the richest.
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE