Welfare system 'failing to meet minimum thresholds for a dignified standard of living'
Starmer lies on Abbott exposed

BREAKING: As the Morning Star went to print, the Times claimed to have exclusive information that Diane Abbott will be barred from standing as a Labour candidate at the general election for the seat she has represented for 37 years.
SIR KEIR STARMER has been concealing the truth over Diane Abbott’s exclusion from Labour in Parliament, it was revealed today.
BBC Newsnight reported that the party probe into Ms Abbott’s offence — a brief newspaper letter for which she immediately apologised — finished last December.
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