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Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party gained ground in this week’s local elections at the expense of the communist-led alliance.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists came top in 158 of the country’s 308 biggest municipalities, holding the capital Lisbon but failing to take Porto from an independent.
The Socialist Party vote exceeded 38 per cent, up from its 2015 general election share of 32 per cent.
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde sees Trump’s many disruptions as an opportunity to challenge the dollar’s ‘exorbitant privilege’ — but greater Euro assertiveness will also mean greater warmongering and militarism, warns NICK WRIGHT
