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Chairman of the Conservative Party Greg Hands holds up a pair of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer ‘flip flops’ as he speaks during the Conservative Party annual conference at Manchester Central, October 1, 2023
THE new test for Labour’s policy-lite leadership lies in its response to Rishi Sunak’s potpourri of policies outlined today at the Tory conference in Manchester.
A sure-footed prime-minister-in-waiting would seize on the most regressive of Sunak’s schemes and simply say that if initiated they will be cancelled. And, if desirable, the scheme will be reinstated.
Let us see.
The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT