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Left Foot Forward spoke to the ASLEF general secretary at this year’s TUC Congress

“We need to listen to our MPs more, respect them more and I hope this deputy leadership contest will open up a debate about that whole approach to running the PLP and the Labour Party.”

The motion passed with 2,871,000 votes in favour and 2,291,000 votes against.

The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson also said: “We are absolutely backing the Employment Rights Bill.”

‘The Labour Party as a party of change is beyond dead’

‘I’ve taken on powerful vested interests in the education sector – and even as they threw everything at me, I have never taken a backwards step. I will bring that same determination to every battle ahead of us.’

“It’s clear that the Green Party and the trade union movement are very strongly aligned in our vision for what needs to change in the UK”

The former shadow chancellor has called for a ‘popular front’ against Reform

Fran Heathcote, PCS general secretary, called for the government to engage rather than trying to ‘appease Reform’

Left Foot Forward spoke to Richard Burgon at TUC Congress in Brighton