Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
LEICESTER has often been described as one of the “most ethnically diverse” places in Britain.
The 2011 British census recorded that two-thirds of its population was non-white and nearly half, or 48.5 per cent of the people here, described themselves as Asian.
But MPs from Leicester East have been in the news for all kinds of unflattering reasons for the past couple of years.
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
On the 121st anniversary of communist Claudia Jones’s birth ROGER McKENZIE looks at political events that shaped her, and those she helped shape
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE



