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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage (left) and Brexit Party parliamentary candidate Mike Greene
LABOUR insisted “Peterborough deserves better” after it was revealed that the Brexit Party’s by-election candidate was involved with the asset-stripping firm that destroyed British Steel.
Lisa Forbes, the Labour hopeful for the marginal seat in tomorrow’s by-election, said the revelation about the Thatcherite party’s candidate Mike Greene was “shocking but not surprising.”
And a trade unionist told the Morning Star it showed the Brexit Party represented “spivs and gangster capitalists” rather than ordinary people.
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all