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Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Durham Miners' Association general secretary Alan Mardghum
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DURHAM Miners Association leader Alan Mardghum is dismayed that Reform UK now control Durham County Council, with 65 of its 98 seats.
But though Durham was Labour’s first-ever county council (from 1919), and has been Labour for 99 of the 106 years since, he wasn’t shocked at the rout which has left the long-dominant party with a miserable four councillors.
Labour, he says, have been asking for it. “People feel desperately left behind.” Keir Starmer’s government has kicked its core supporters in the teeth again and again: “The Waspi women betrayed, though they promised them justice while in opposition.
