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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer ignores questions from Green New Deal activists
Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt
SIR KEIR STARMER was accused of reneging on his pledge to renationalise the energy sector today, as Labour conference delegates overwhelmingly backed public ownership.
When asked on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show whether he would consider nationalising the “big six” energy companies, the Labour leader said “no” — apparently ditching his leadership campaign pledge to support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water.
Labour would only consider nationalisation when it would deliver “value for money for the taxpayer and a better service,” he added.
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY