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How should the left and the labour movement respond to the Brexit deal?
As the false polarisations that have divided working people over the past decade subside, the class politics of both the EU and Johnson are there for all to see, writes JOHN FOSTER
TORY DEAL: Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Brussels with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen

THE first thing to say about the UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement with the EU is that it was a treaty negotiated by a Conservative government — not a Labour government. Certainly not by a progressive Labour government.  

But a Conservative government dominated by neoliberal, free-market objectives and ambitions, particularly those of banking and finance.

To emphasise this point further, it is worth considering how a progressive Labour government might have tackled the negotiations — as, for instance, one elected on the basis of Labour’s most recent (2019) election programme.  

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