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Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 22, 2024
LABOUR has been urged to pull itself together and transform the country after a Cabinet minister admitted the party’s economic performance has been “disappointing” today.
Commons leader Lucy Powell acknowledged the flatlining economy and said people’s frustrations with the party’s performance in office are understandable.
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER