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Labour MP Ian Lavery injected a dose of reality yesterday following a top Tory’s attempt to rebrand his hard-faced right-wing party as the workers’ party.
Tory chairman Grant Shapps made a bizarre speech at his party’s HQ, declaring: “The Conservatives are the workers’ party.”
He claimed that the Tories were “genuinely a mass movement” with 174,000 members and 600,000 people following Prime Minister David Cameron on Twitter.
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG