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‘Labour’s Future Rests on Building a Country with Real National Resilience’

The media psychodrama around the Greater Manchester Mayor’s potential return to Parliament misses a more serious point about what his programme for reform recognises about the British state, writes Labour’s Clive Lewis MP

Westminster may finally be about to have the argument it has spent 40 years avoiding.

If Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham returns to Parliament, the political class will know how to cover it. A leadership drama. Who’s up, who’s down. Whether Keir Starmer can survive. How Labour is once again turning inward. The familiar machinery of Westminster psychodrama will whirr into life.

But such a framing would miss the larger point.

Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church

For 18 months, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper’s findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s claim that he refuses to associate with extreme elements of the populist right. Josiah Mortimer reports
Josiah Mortimer

Blue Labour Crashes Into a Green Wall

The historic losses suffered by Keir Starmer’s party in this month’s local elections have finally exposed the flawed approach of abandoning its progressive base to appeal to Reform UK voters, writes Adam Bienkov
Adam Bienkov