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Labour candidates ‘believe in nothing’, GMB conference told
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer making a speech in Grays, Essex while on the General Election campaign trail, June 9, 2024

LABOUR parliamentary candidates have no life experience and “believe in nothing,” GMB conference heard today.

Three Shires delegate Andy Newman made the comments as he moved a motion slamming Labour-run Colchester and Swindon councils for using “every unscrupulous, trade union-busting trick in the book.”

He said: “It can’t be soon enough to get rid of this [Tory] shambles, but why, as a Labour Party member, am I not more excited about the prospect of a landslide government?

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