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Frances O'Grady praises Labour's 'decisive shift to the left'

“LABOUR has reinvented itself by moving decisively to the left,” TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said in the annual Jimmy Reid memorial lecture in Glasgow last night.

Ms O’Grady praised the “Scandinavian model” of social democracy for demonstrating that “with fair taxation you can deliver world-class childcare and social care,” designing “whole cities … around the needs of children” and accepting that “the great majority of working people should be protected by collective bargaining.”

But the TUC leader pointed out that “the world has changed” and social democracy was increasingly failing.

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