LABOUR’S position on the EU risks a gap opening up between the party and the traditional labour movement, the director of a black and minority ethnic (BME) charity said at Merthyr Rising.
Voice4Change director Kunle Olulode told the Is Lexit Possible? meeting that he grew up in a family of Nigerian origin “steeped in Labour history.”
He also said that he remembered the 1975 EEC referendum, which demoted Britain’s relationship with the Commonwealth.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all



