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Calls to embrace austerity economics and return to the failed foreign policy of the past should not be heeded if we’re to get rid of the Conservative government that’s harming our communities, says RICHARD BURGON
Chuka Umunna films on his mobile phone as Anna Soubry addresses anti-Brexit campaigners at a rally after the People's Vote March for the Future in London last year

THE wheels have really started to fall off the Conservative government in the 10 days since I last wrote my Morning Star column. 

Calamity after Conservative calamity brings home just what difficulty the Tories’ Thatcherite administration is in.

Last Thursday, the Tories suffered their 10th parliamentary defeat on Brexit. So commonplace have government defeats become that many hardly bat an eyelid. Government defeats are the new norm. 

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