SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Rail renationalisation shunted off Labour’s agenda?
Starmer’s Labour seems to think a party that promises little is more admired, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
WILL rail renationalisation survive Keir Starmer’s cull of commitments? Or will it be shunted into the sidings and forgotten about?
Uncertain messaging from the top at Labour’s recent conference suggests the party is considering not taking back control of trains after all.
The 2019 manifesto promised “bringing our railways back into public ownership.” But listen to shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon’s conference speech: that isn’t what he calls for.
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