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COMRADE TORIES? Conservative candidate Aaron Bell is declared the winner of the Newcastle-Under-Lyme
LABOUR today acknowledged that its huge general election losses were down to its “neutral” stance on Brexit.
A string of Leave-voting Labour strongholds fell to the Tories for the first time since their inception, while Labour’s pro-Remain vote in some constituencies was split by the SNP and Liberal Democrats.
The shock results included pro-Brexit socialist MP Dennis Skinner losing his Bolsover seat, one that he had held for 49 years.
This by-election could plausibly see both Reform and Labour defeated — but splitting the left insurgent vote would put that at risk, argues CHRIS WILLIAMSON
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
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
