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LABOUR is urging new Tory MPs to help save the livelihoods of more than a million of their constituents by voting for targeted extension of government coronavirus financial support schemes today.
In the middle of August, about 670,000 people were still fully furloughed from their jobs under the job retention scheme in 107 seats won by new Tory MPs in December’s election, according to analysis by Labour.
Almost 400,000 people in those constituencies had made claims under the coronavirus self-employed income support scheme by the end of July, the party’s research shows.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
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
