Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Is Reeves doing a Brown?
Is the shadow chancellor’s pledge to ‘not tax the rich’ just a ruse to get into office, which will then be reversed? SOLOMON HUGHES looks to a public spending turnaround in 1998 for possible evidence
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
WILL Labour be better than advertised? “Soft left” supporters of Sir Keir Starmer are trying to reassure themselves that Labour’s bleak promises to do very little redistribution or reform are just a ruse: Labour is trying to sneak into government past the right-wing press and reactionary voters by adopting a low profile.
Once elected, they hope Rachel Reeves will say: “We’ve looked at the books, and it looks like we will have to tax the rich after all.”
Reeves’s recent announcement in the Telegraph that she has torn up her own former commitment to a “wealth tax” prompted another round of “she’s only saying that to get elected and doesn’t mean it” from the soft left.
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