The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
THE concept of “divide and rule” has been a tried and tested conservative technique, stretching back to the days of formal empire when colonial powers would pit indigenous groups against each other as part of their brutal, extractive regimes.
In recent weeks, we have seen our Tory government engage in multiple examples of this brutal tool of governance.
The first is the government’s farcical public-sector pay increase, which claimed to be “in recognition of their help in tackling Covid-19.”
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe


