All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
AS I commented recently in these pages (“Mexico’s welfare plan stuns the UN,” November 13), Mexico’s Amlo and his team are determined to punch above their weight in the international arena.
They continue to push the World Welfare Plan proposed on November 9: Mexican diplomats have engaged with UN delegations from over 100 countries and will shortly be presenting the plan in more detail to the general assembly.
Just over a week later Amlo was at it again, this time meeting with Joe Biden and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau in Washington on November 18 at the North American summit of the three members of the continental trade agreement.
DAVID RABY explains the background of the recent upheavals in Mexico
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance


