Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
‘Stop looking to government - we need to build our strength in the workplace’
As GMB conference meets in Bournemouth, its general secretary GARY SMITH speaks to the Morning Star
GMB conference broke yesterday afternoon for delegates to campaign for a Labour election victory.
Though the focus of conference has been strongly industrial, multiple delegates referred to the hope a final end to Conservative rule after 14 years represents.
GMB’s general secretary, Gary Smith, stands by that despite the doubts over whether Keir Starmer’s Labour will change all that much.
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