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LABOUR MP Ian Lavery announced yesterday that he will vote and campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union, but insisted it would not be a “full endorsement of the European project.”
The shadow minister for trade unions said the EU requires “genuine reform in the interests of the many” and said he had “utmost respect” for those on the left voting Leave.
But he warned a break with Brussels could put workplace rights at risk and cut investment to communities devastated by Thatcher, such as north-east England.
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP