Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
TONY BENN always used to say quite rightly that politics is not about personalities, it is about issues.
Although Jeremy Corbyn has been a friend and political ally for decades, I oppose his suspension from the Labour Party on political grounds.
Those political issues should be of the utmost concern to everyone in the Labour Party, across the labour movement and to the tens of millions of people in this country, the majority of the population, whose only serious hope of a better life is largely dependent on the election of a Labour government.
The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous



