Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Education belaboured?
ROBERT POOLE dissects Labour’s plans around education
HAVING spent my entire career almost working under Tory rule the idea of a change of government should be a welcome relief.
The right-wing press is attempting to whip up hysteria talking about curriculum changes turning schools into sites of social engineering while tax “raids” on private schools are being compared to 1980s pit closures in the Telegraph.
This sounds to me like the Labour Party is upsetting the right people. Can the Labour Party, should it win, be trusted to make real change, though?
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