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LABOUR pressure group Momentum called yesterday for the party to commit to the permanent public ownership of the steel industry.
Momentum slammed the government’s “wilful inaction” which led to the current crisis, threatening 40,000 jobs in the industry and supply chain.
But the group that grew from the campaign to elect Jeremy Corbyn as leader said that Labour needed to put forward a coherent and progressive remedy.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership