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JEREMY CORBYN compared David Cameron’s Tory government a “driverless car heading in the wrong direction” yesterday after a Queen’s speech bereft of big ideas.
For all the pomp and ceremony of the state opening of Parliament, the programme for government unveiled was widely viewed as a wafer-thin diversion from Tory divisions over Europe.
And the paucity of policy which inspired Mr Corbyn’s quip saw plans for “autonomous and electric vehicles” promoted to the top of the list of 20 new laws unveiled in Ms Windsor’s address to the Lords.
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
