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REVELATIONS that the European Commission is “playing hardball” on Brexit because it fears an interventionist Jeremy Corbyn government confirm “the reasons I voted against every single European treaty,” Labour veteran Dennis Skinner told the Morning Star today.
A senior EU source briefed The Times that commissioners were ramping up fears of Tory deregulation “because it is better public relations,” but their “real fear is state subsidies under a Corbyn government.”
The source noted that British policy had remained “unchanged for generations, but now there is a real chance of a left-wing government reversing it,” and said the EU would be pushing for a “non-regression clause” locking Thatcherite policies into British law “to protect ourselves and the single market.”
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK tells Ben Chacko that Labour can win back disillusioned voters by delivering workplace reforms, rebuilding trust and challenging the far right’s growing influence
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT