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As Truss unleashes ‘Thatcherism 2.0’ Labour must show people we are on their side
We might be leading in the polls, but our devastated country cannot wait up to two years for an election — Labour must be forcing concessions and retreats from Truss’s obscene neoliberal cabal here and now, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
GROWING SOLIDARITY: Workers from different unions and their supporters take part in a pro-strike rally, Glasgow, August 26

LIZ TRUSS spent years carefully preparing Thatcher-style photo ops to maximise her appeal to the Tory base. Just weeks into her new government, it is clear she intends to govern like Thatcher too.

Her new Cabinet is one of the most right wing in modern history. Could there be anyone worse in charge of workers’ rights and key climate policies than Jacob Rees-Mogg?  

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng once co-authored a book along with Truss labelling British workers as “among the worst idlers in the world.” As Home Secretary Suella Braverman seems determined to out-right even Priti Patel on bashing migrants and undermining human rights.  

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