Skip to main content
The Morning Star Shop
Labour’s task is to seize this moment
Britain is crying out for change and investment in our crumbling infrastructure – will Labour have the courage to commit to the investment so desperately needed, asks JON TRICKETT MP
NHS junior doctors taking part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham, April 2023

LAST week’s parade of competing Tory ghouls, strange apparitions and ideological monsters revealed a deep unease about the party’s prospects among leading figures.

But one thing stood out clearly — PM Rishi Sunak’s speech which set out the need to draw a line under the record of his party’s own period of government.

So even the Conservatives after 13 years of government recognise that they need to offer a rupture with the recent past.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
WE MUST DO BETTER: Jon Trickett speaks in the House of Commons, September 10 2025
Labour Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025

We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP

(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the launch of the Government's 10-year health plan during a visit to the Sir Ludwig Guttman Health & Wellbeing Centre in east London, July 3, 2025
Unite Conference 2025 / 8 July 2025
8 July 2025

The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM

UTTER REJECTION: A contingent od disabled protesters move to
Features / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY