BEER AND SANDWICHES will return to Downing Street if Labour wins the next election, John McDonnell hinted yesterday.
The shadow chancellor told attendees at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) conference that both unions and business leaders would have seats at Westminster’s “top table” under his watch.
He said: “We want to look at new institutions which bring businesses to the top table of political decision making again. So, I want small businesses at the top table in government for policy-making.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
ANSELM ELDERGILL is a member of Your Party and he suggests how the new party should reform Britain’s constitution
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare


