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Starmer’s missing opposition
Labour needs to show it believes in real change based on the economic needs of working people — and half-hearted noises about ‘fixing sick pay’ don’t go nearly far enough, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer

LABOUR’S leadership is clearly trying to do some “message discipline” on the need to, as shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told new Health Secretary Sajid Javid, “fix sick pay” to slow the pandemic.

Ashworth has been pressing on this key issue in Parliament and TV studios.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is trying to enforce the message by highlighting “the broken system of statutory sick pay,” as has Labour chair Anneliese Dodds. 

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