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Labour MP Ian Lavery injected a dose of reality yesterday following a top Tory’s attempt to rebrand his hard-faced right-wing party as the workers’ party.
Tory chairman Grant Shapps made a bizarre speech at his party’s HQ, declaring: “The Conservatives are the workers’ party.”
He claimed that the Tories were “genuinely a mass movement” with 174,000 members and 600,000 people following Prime Minister David Cameron on Twitter.
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
