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WORKERS’ rights will be central to the next Labour government, party leader Jeremy Corbyn told a huge rally in south Wales at the weekend.
Mr Corbyn delivered the annual Keir Hardie memorial lecture to more than 1,000 people in Aberdare, drawing analogies between the experiences and policies of the first Labour leader and current times.
He said that Keir Hardie had begun work as a child labourer in the Lanarkshire coalfield aged 10, working at the pits until being blacklisted at 23.
KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP