LABOUR insisted “Peterborough deserves better” after it was revealed that the Brexit Party’s by-election candidate was involved with the asset-stripping firm that destroyed British Steel.
Lisa Forbes, the Labour hopeful for the marginal seat in tomorrow’s by-election, said the revelation about the Thatcherite party’s candidate Mike Greene was “shocking but not surprising.”
And a trade unionist told the Morning Star it showed the Brexit Party represented “spivs and gangster capitalists” rather than ordinary people.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP


