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Filmmaker Loach launches Left Unity manifesto at squat

LEFT Unity is contesting the election to keep socialist ideas alive, Ken Loach said yesterday as he launched the party’s manifesto at a London squat. 

The filmmaker, whose spirit of 1945 documentary celebrated the achievements of Labour’s post-war government, said his party now carried that flame. 

He said: “Left Unity is against the logic of the market. It’s for the interests of the people. And therefore it’s different.

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