The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
THE Tory government has chosen to mark this Windrush Day with a series of announcements which simply underline how racist they are and how much they will rely on promoting racism in the upcoming general election.
What that means for the labour movement is how much we must still fight on all the issues of racism, and how we must place anti-racism at the heart of all our efforts to change society for the better.
In quick succession the Home Office announced the disbandment of its own unit trying to implement “lessons learnt” from the scandal, a sharp increase in the use of stop and search and that it is examining a policy of “Britons first” in relation to the allocation of council housing.
Labour cannot win another election by accommodating racism, instead it should focus on finding solutions to social concerns that too often seek scapegoats, writes DIANE ABBOTT
The attacks on black academics are well-funded and relentless, writes DIANE ABBOTT, and they need to be fearlessly resisted by all concerned
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP


