The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
Inequality Street
A reminder of Penny Mordaunt’s insult to firefighters…
ON December 23 2014, I was frantically scouring my networks for a festive story to round off a year — my first working for the Morning Star.
Then I stumbled across a Facebook post from firefighters in Cosham, a northern suburb of Portsmouth.
A tub of Quality Street had been dropped off by their local MP, with a card “wishing you peace at Christmas.” So far, so good.
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