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SPEECHES by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn at the weekend’s New Economy event offer a viable progressive alternative to the Tory government’s programme.
They acknowledge that New Labour’s record in office alienated Labour voters by making Britain a “tax haven for the super-rich.”
The current party leadership has to respond to the issues that drove 5 million voters away from Labour in office.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY