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ANDY BURNHAM attacked European Union leaders yesterday for imposing right-wing policies across the continent — before saying he wanted Britain to remain a member, writes Luke James.
Giving his verdict on the Greek crisis, the Labour leadership front-runner said that Athens should accept pension cuts but criticised plans for further austerity and privatisation.
“The danger is that the EU is becoming associated with a right-of-centre economic orthodoxy that is being imposed on all parts of the EU over and above the heads of the Greek people,” he said.
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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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