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Home Secretary, Suella Braverman delivers her keynote speech to the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, October 3, 2023
WAGING war on the “woke,” blocking the boats and backing armed police was the far-right message from Home Secretary Suella Braverman today as she pandered to every prejudice at Tory Party conference.
Ms Braverman reinforced her reputation as the darling of the Tory right by hitting out at migrants and progressive opinion in her speech in Manchester.
She tried to make the flesh creep with a warning that a “hurricane” was bringing “millions more migrants to these shores,” a bid to echo Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” rhetoric.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war