Tax-Loving Labour Left Launching New Campaign Group to Pressure Starmer – Guido Fawkes

Tax-Loving Labour Left Launching New Campaign Group to Pressure Starmer

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The ‘soft left’ of the Labour Party is launching a new faction. Not another one…

Guido hears the Compass group and Open Labour, which regularly work together calling for wealth taxes and higher spending, will launch a new group called “Mainstream” on 3 September. The organisers claim their new “network” will “publish and hold events across the country” to foster “real debate that leads to robust and ambitious ideas, policies and strategies for a democratic socialist future.” The “Radical Realists” of Labour say they will campaign on “economic, social, democratic and environmental issues that will defeat authoritarian populism at the ballot box and win hearts and minds for the long-term.” Starmer’s ability to command hearts and minds has been put into doubt recently…

The group outlines its aims:

“It means fighting for public services that meet these needs, inspire pride in collective provision and are built on long-term investment and the wisdom of the workers and users who sustain them… And it understands that authoritarian populism can only be defeated by creating a national community that truly belongs to all of its people, and delivers for all of its people.”

With Starmer pitching more to the left ahead of Conference and Rayner cementing her power base in government there is significant pressure for a marked shift in policy. Bad news for working people…