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by Lamiat Sabin
in Birmingham
JEREMY CORBYN declared war on bankers, billionaires, bad bosses, dodgy landlords, media moguls and tax-dodging corporations as he launched Labour's transformative manifesto yesterday.
The Labour leader said the manifesto — the “most radical in decades” — offers Britain “hope and real change” with policies that the “political establishment” and the “most powerful people” had blocked for a generation.
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
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
Ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, ROZ FOYER warns that a bold tax policy is needed to rebuild devastated public services which can serve as the foundation of a strong, fair economy