Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
TODAY Labour conference will vote on the cut to winter fuel payments for pensioners — and, says Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, “it feels like a win already” to have got it onto the agenda.
The union had been battling behind the scenes to ensure its motion — which besides the winter fuel payment calls on Labour to drop the “fiscal rules” it has adopted from the Tories — got debated at all.
“It was really important we got this motion on the floor. They have to reverse the winter fuel payment cuts, they’ve got to do a U-turn. I don’t know how they can have made a decision to cut this while leaving the richest in our society untouched.
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
Here are the voices of DANIEL KEBEDE, FRAN HEATHCOTE, HOLLY TURNER and LEANNE MOHAMAD explaining why they will be taking part in the People’s Assembly No More Austerity demo next weekend



