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Resist and defeat the Tories
DIANE ABBOTT believes there is a popular appetite for confronting the government and the unions have already shown the way forward
Polls show majority support for workers taking strike action to win higher pay

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.

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