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Theresa May, in her Bank of England speech in defence of capitalism, said that “an open market place, in which everyone is free to participate” was key to the “open, innovative, free market economy.”
At the Tory conference, however, there is a bit of a closed market of corporations bidding for the attention of delegates inside the “security zone.”
It is evident that those with the fattest wallets get to crowd out the others.
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
Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests