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DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
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This question will be at the heart of our debates this week at our first Wales TUC Congress since 2018.
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