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Two people wearing face masks look at a display of Christmas trees at Covent Garden, London
LABOUR MPs have slammed ministers’ “hopeless” and “deeply flawed” plans for a second round of tiered coronavirus restrictions before a crunch Commons vote tomorrow.
Up to 100 Tory MPs could rebel in voting down the government’s plans for a tiered system, which would replace the national lockdown from midnight.
The government is so desperate to get approval that some Tory MPs have reportedly been promised a ministerial job if they vote for the plans.
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP