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Labour's Chuka Umunna at the launch of the Brexit ‘Facts Bus’ in London
JEREMY CORBYN’S reminder this morning that “Brexit is what we make of it together” should prompt all of us on the left to look at what kind of country we want to live in.
As the Labour leader is due to say, “In or out of the EU we have to deal with the reality of market failure and austerity.”
Any Labour government that fails to deal with both these issues will ultimately be a failure itself.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT