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(Right to left) Ed Miliband, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the Port of Greenock while on the General Election campaign trail, May 31, 2024
LAST week’s survey published by researchers at University College London is one that the incoming Labour government would do well to study.
It found that 74 per cent of those responding believed that our political system was ‘rigged to service the rich and influential.’ Ninety-six per cent believed more respect should be shown to “ordinary people.”
Well over half of respondents blamed Tory mismanagement for the crisis of the National Health Service and the collapse of other aspects of the welfare state.
Wales is second from the bottom in terms of cultural services in the EU. HELEDD FYCHAN believes that needs to change if the country is to prosper
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON