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LABOUR would be reduced to a party of “suits and spads [special advisers]” without its link to trade unions, veteran socialist MP Dennis Skinner warned yesterday.
Firebrand Mr Skinner took aim at divisive figures within the party trying to “freeze out” the unions, saying it would leave Labour without roots in working-class communities.
The miners’ MP spoke out ahead of the first meeting of Labour’s Trade Union Group of MPs since the election in Parliament last night.
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership