SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Guzzling at the trough
SOLOMON HUGHES takes a look at the corporate-sponsored events frequented by Tory-turned-Labour-MP Christian Wakeford
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Bury South MP Christian Wakeford, who has defected from the Conservatives to Labour, in his office in the Houses of Parliament
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CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
CHRISTIAN WAKEFORD, the Tory MP who crossed the floor to become a Labour MP, got a long profile in the Guardian which managed to expose not just what is wrong with Wakeford, but the corrupted state of Westminster itself, drawing a picture of shallow, unprincipled careerists grabbing what they can from corporate lobbyists.
It’s all the more surprising because the Guardian profile is very sympathetic to Wakeford.
Wakeford was a newly elected Tory MP in 2019, with a very slim 402-vote majority in a typically Labour seat. A small shift to Labour would see his MP’s career stopped.
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