Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
OF COURSE Theresa May and her minority government have made a dog’s breakfast of Brexit! What else could reasonably have been expected?
The Prime Minister, her Chancellor Philip Hammond and the majority of her original Cabinet were — and still are — in favour of Britain remaining in the European Union.
Like their predecessors David Cameron and George Osborne, they understand that the “free market” and monetarist treaties of the EU create the most lucrative framework for monopoly corporations in Britain and across Europe.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all



