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Power without principles won’t help workers
Labour has lurched to the right under Starmer – and it’s working people who are suffering as a result of a lack of proper opposition, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
WITH THE ELITE: Sir Keir Starmer enjoys the royal box on Wimbledon’s Centre Court, Thursday July 7 2022

I BECAME a member of the Labour Party after Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader.

The fully costed manifesto calling for a large increase in public investment funded by taxes on corporations and top-earners was not only realisable but necessary for the stability of the country and for the future for the next generation.

Having spent years of my life as an NHS nurse, witnessing the impact of untrammelled cuts and privatisation, the Labour Party was finally moving in a direction I could support.

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