Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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It’s the media, stupid
What do we do with the fact that newspapers’ editorial negativity towards Labour in 2019 more than doubled from 2017, asks IAN SINCLAIR
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Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
AS soon as the general election was called for the Tories, liberal commentators moved quickly to shut down debate about the role the media had played in the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
“Blame the media blame the media blame the media,” sarcastically tweeted Janine Gibson, former US editor at the Guardian and now assistant editor at the Financial Times.
Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff was equally dismissive, tweeting: “I see the official line is to blame Brexit. Or the media. Anything but the leader & the people who have kept him there.”
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