LOCAL elections in Scotland, Wales, London and many English urban centres take place tomorrow.
At Westminster ministers are forcing down public-sector pay and declining to take action to control prices.
At Holyrood the Scottish National Party fiercely condemns the Conservatives for policies driving the increase in poverty, while starving local authorities of funds and seeking to incorporate private-sector commissioning models in promised new institutions like the national care service.
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour
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


