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Parliamentary group on political literacy ‘no substitute’ for working-class education, say socialists
Workers from the Covent Garden branch of TGI Fridays on a picket line outside the restaurant in central London
A NEW all-party parliamentary group for political literacy is “no substitute” for labour-movement political education, socialists warned yesterday.
The new group, co-chaired by Conservative MP Simon Fell and Labour peer Iain McNicol – notorious on the left for apparently working to undermine former leader Jeremy Corbyn while party general secretary, according to an internal report leaked last Easter — is pushing for more political education in schools.
It points to low turnouts by young people in elections, with the “youthquake” of 2017, when Labour attracted large numbers of first-time voters, not reflected in the 2019 general election.
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