BRITAIN’S Communist Party is calling on all socialists and progressive-minded people not to vote for any member of Labour’s shadow cabinet at the forthcoming election.

Communist Party general secretary Rob Griffiths made the appeal at its political committee on Tuesday night.

“This the clearest, most consistent way to show our opposition to Labour’s sharp turn to the right under Keir Starmer’s direction, for which all shadow cabinet members must bear collective responsibility,” he said.

He highlighted Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s broken pledges on green investment, public ownership, social benefits, public schools, tuition fees, arms exports and taxing the rich and big business.

Mr Griffiths said it came as no surprise that millions of working-class electors have not been “rushing to the polls” in recent local council and parliamentary elections despite mass opposition to the Tory government.

“Many see no big difference between Labour and Tory policies,” he said, while making clear the Communist Party’s preference for a Labour victory on July 4.

He added: “A united front based on the trade unions and popular campaigning to challenge a pro-big business Labour government, would be a more advanced political situation than a defeated labour movement having to face a Tory regime that totters on the edge of insanity.”