REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires

OUR political system is stuffed with odd conventions. Many, like the much-abused pairing system of excusing MPs from votes — which this week forced Labour’s Tulip Siddiq to postpone a Caesarean section — deserve to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
One that should survive, though, is the practice that closing speeches in votes of confidence are given not by party leaders, but by their seconds in command.
It allows us to see normally overshadowed figures as if they were the centrepiece, with a dash of hope or warning.
When the Labour government fell in 1979, Michael Foot, then deputy Labour leader and Lord President of the Council, delivered one of the finest orations in British parliamentary history.

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