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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What happened to the anger and the hope?
Four years ago Jeremy Corbyn led Labour into the 2017 general election and shook the Establishment to its core with his policies for the many not the few. But now the demoralisation of the party is palpable, writes DAVID ROSENBERG
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at a rally in Glasgow while on the last full day of campaigning for the 2017 general election
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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
FOUR years ago this week, on June 8 2017, it was the day of the general election.
I had spent the night before at Jeremy Corbyn’s final election rally.
After trailing around the country speaking to a few indoor and many outdoor rallies, some of them really huge, he was back on home turf in the jam-packed and beautiful setting of Union Chapel in Islington, speaking to several hundred enthusiastic supporters.
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