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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.
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
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
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES