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Rebecca Long Bailey's green socialist agenda
The struggle to tackle climate change is linked to improving living standards and transforming the way our economy works, writes MATT WILLGRESS

HAVING been sad enough to have attended Labour conference for over 20 years, I can honestly say that Rebecca Long Bailey’s Tuesday speech was one of the most brilliant outlines of what socialist policies could mean in transforming people’s lives I have heard here, or anywhere else.

She articulately critiqued Boris Johnson’s approach on both the economy and tackling climate chaos, and spelled out clearly how they are totally linked.

Hitting the nail on the head, she argued that “these are the very people who loaded the costs of the bankers’ crisis onto the backs of the poor. So be under no illusion, it will be the poor and the vulnerable who are forced to shoulder the human and economic price of climate breakdown.”

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