The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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A failure of a victory for Starmer
With less than 34 per cent of votes cast on a turnout of just 60 per cent, no party has got so much for so little. This wasn’t so much a ‘Labour landslide’ as Tory collapse, explains ANDREW MURRAY
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
NO prime minister has entered Downing Street with a more compromised mandate, with scarcely a breeze to lift his sails.
The joy at the end of Tory rule, symbolised by the loss of the constituencies once represented by David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, cannot disguise the less than ringing endorsement of Keir Starmer’s Labour.
Nor can the iniquities of the first-past-the-post system, which gifted Labour a Commons landslide over a divided right, mask the fact that Starmer takes office with his electoral coalition already crumbling.
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