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Starmer has sunk to ‘a new low’

Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people

Durham Miners' Association general secretary Alan Mardghum

DURHAM Miners Association leader Alan Mardghum is dismayed that Reform UK now control Durham County Council, with 65 of its 98 seats.

But though Durham was Labour’s first-ever county council (from 1919), and has been Labour for 99 of the 106 years since, he wasn’t shocked at the rout which has left the long-dominant party with a miserable four councillors.

Labour, he says, have been asking for it. “People feel desperately left behind.” Keir Starmer’s government has kicked its core supporters in the teeth again and again: “The Waspi women betrayed, though they promised them justice while in opposition.

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