Liz Truss left humiliated and speechless in series of local radio interviews trying to defend disastrous policies
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Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, September 2022
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CWU announces a further 19 days of strike action in run up to Christmas
Royal Mail’s millionaire executives want to destroy our members’ terms and turn this into another Amazon.
IMF urges Tory government to reverse huge tax cuts that ‘will likely increase inequality’
‘The IMF statement is very serious, and it shows just what a mess the government have made of the economy.’
Keir Starmer promises Labour will launch publicly owned energy firm
The Labour leader promised to set up Great British Energy in its first year of government
Poll gives Labour 17-point lead ahead of Keir Starmer’s keynote speech to Labour conference
The poll, carried out by YouGov for the Times, found that Starmer has an approval rating of 45 per cent while the Tories led by new prime minister Liz Truss trail behind at 28 per cent.
Andy Burnham calls for an end to current whips system to give MPs more freedom
Calling for a ‘rewiring of Britain’, he said: “‘The reason we’ve got such an unequal country is because power is very unequally held and used in the UK. That’s why I say we have to rewire the country so that power flows around all places.”
Labour conference votes overwhelmingly to replace FPTP with PR
Although the party leadership does not approve the change, the conference has backed a motion which supports a “fairer proportional electoral system.”
5 key takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s speech, including a hike to the minimum wage
‘The last Labour government delivered Britain’s first ever national minimum wage. The next Labour government will introduce a genuine living wage.’
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A round of progressive news…