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Nick Clegg was warned yesterday that voters will judge him on the Con-Dem’s cuts record, despite the Deputy PM’s latest desperate bid to distance himself from the Tories.
After propping up the coalition for more than four years, the the Lib Dem leader called on the Conservatives to “come clean” with voters about the scale of planned cuts.
But his Labour rival for the Sheffield Hallam seat was clear that Mr Clegg’s constituents will “look at what he’s done not what he’s said.”
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
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT