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SINN FEIN MP Conor Murphy said last night that his party wants David Cameron’s “disastrous” Tories out in May but won’t help prop up a Labour government.
Mr Murphy told his party’s “choices for 2015” public meeting in Parliament that Con-Dem cuts to welfare and public services have almost pushed the north’s fragile political process to breaking point.
The party’s senior negotiator also met leading Labour and Tory counterparts to set out Sinn Fein’s opposition to further spending cuts.
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP