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THE LEADER of the Unite trade union accused Labour today of looking like an uninspiring team of “middle managers” while Britain faces a “tsunami of redundancies” and its worst recession since the 1930s.
General secretary Len McCluskey said that the Labour leadership elected earlier this year had shown an “element of timidity” and “fear” in failing to set out the party’s position on the economy.
Up to 3.5 million redundancies are expected due to the coronavirus crisis.
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT