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HOW refreshing to hear a Labour Party leader say to the Trade Union Congress: “I am, and always will be, an active trade unionist.”
To hear from a Labour leader who prizes the “organic link” between the labour movement and its party.
And who does not talk to the trade union movement as an external lobby to be alternately appeased and rebuffed as political calculations dictate but as one of us — “there are six million of us in this country,” “we are the largest voluntary organisation in Britain.”
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT