The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
THE warm favourite to win the Tory leadership contest is Liz Truss. But there is no good outcome for the majority of people in this country, despite sections of the liberal press trying to drum up support for Rishi Sunak, the author of vicious austerity measures as recently as March this year.
The entire Tory parliamentary party has a common aim of making working people and the poor pay for a crisis they did not cause.
The practical outcome of this entirely undemocratic selection process will be to instal yet another Tory administration, the fourth in six years, which will operate solely in the interests of the 1 per cent of the population.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10


