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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer arrives to deliver a virtual speech on Monday
by Lamiat Sabin
Parliamentary reporter
LABOUR is being warned against turning its back on Jeremy Corbyn’s popular manifesto policies after the party signalled that it will compete with the Conservatives on “economic competence.”
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds was due to call for a “responsible economic, fiscal and monetary policy” based on “pragmatism, not dogmatism” to protect Britain’s recovery from the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in a speech last night.
The annual Mais Lecture took place after the Morning Star went to print.
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
