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JOHN McDONNELL characterises the Autumn Statement choice facing Chancellor Philip Hammond today as between a Brexit that works for bankers and the rich and a fairer alternative benefiting everyone else.
No prizes for guessing which way Hammond is likely to jump, despite Theresa May’s rhetoric about caring for those left behind by globalisation.
She, like other Establishment politicians, has been shaken rigid by the resounding defeat suffered by Wall Street candidate Hillary Clinton. It stretches credulity too far, however, to describe a bombastic, bigoted, billionaire bully boy as an outsider other than in the sense that the US political elite has been dominated by two families for the past quarter-century.
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
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT