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PAYING lip service to honouring the result of the EU referendum is one thing. Ensuring that the reasons for that vote are understood and the wishes of the majority who voted Leave are implemented is evidently another.
Too much of the left has remained on the back foot following the vote on June 23.
After a debate over membership in which right-wing arguments dominated — with too many Remainers appealing to free trade, global capitalism and the City, and too many Leavers scapegoating immigrants or whinging about common-sense regulation of consumer products and the workplace — it’s a missed opportunity that the labour movement hasn’t taken the initiative in the aftermath.
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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