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LABOUR MPs Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon upped calls for a zero-Covid strategy to beat the pandemic at a People’s Assembly online rally last night.
Ms Abbott slammed Boris Johnson’s government for prioritising private-sector profit over human life with its “sleazy contracts” and “jobs for the boys and girls like [test-and-trace supremo] Dido Harding, who has no public health background whatsoever but happens to be the wife of a Tory MP.”
As for privateers like Serco, Sitel and Deloitte running a “world-beating” test-and-trace system, she asked: “Who ever heard of Serco running a world-beating anything?”
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
