Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
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.
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
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



