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Jeremy Corbyn declared Labour “the natural party of business” yesterday, ahead of its annual conference in Brighton this weekend.
The party will work with British businesses to create “the kind of economy we want,” he said, pointing out that many businesses have “Labour values at their core.”
Seven years of Conservative rule has “failed business and failed the economy,” the Labour leader said, starving the country of investment which has in turn hit Britons’ living standards.
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT