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LEFT voices will be diminished but still put up a fight against the small minority around the Labour leadership who “remain obsessively focused on control freakery” at the party’s conference in Liverpool this year, grassroots group Momentum said today.
Seven prominent left-wing MPs remain suspended from the Labour whip for backing an amendment to abolish the two-child benefit limit.
A Momentum spokeswoman said: “While the balance of delegates at conference is likely to be favourable to Starmer, the Labour Party is beset with major internal disagreements between the majority of members and trade unionists – who support commonsense progressive policies such as the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and want to see an end to austerity policies after 14 years of Tory misrule — and a small grouping around the leadership, who remain obsessively focused on control freakery and are happy to have economic policy dictated by the Treasury.”
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER