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'Red' Tory posturing glosses a neo-Thatcherite programme
Rattled by Corbyn's success, the Conservatives have begun to 'pivot to the left' on public spending – a stance well beyond their capabilities, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Esther McVey is the figurehead of 'blue-collar Conservatism,' a group aiming to attract working-class voters
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
UNDER Boris Johnson the Tories have taken a sharp rightward turn on housing, junking Theresa May’s tentative step towards policies for renters and social housing.
A lot of Morning Star readers’ first reaction might well be “Of course they have, they’re Tories.” Or perhaps “So what? Theresa May never meant what she said and never did anything on housing anyway.”
They wouldn’t be wrong. But I still think their return to a kind of headbanger Thatcherism says something about where the Tories are and how they will try and fight the next election.
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