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The NEC left were right to walk out on Starmer
Resisting the Labour right is not a distraction from fighting the Tories, but essential to doing so effectively
National Executive Committee (NEC) members “walked out” of a meeting online

RISHI SUNAK’S plan to punish the very workers who have held society together throughout the pandemic must be resisted by a united labour movement prepared to exert political and industrial pressure.

A pity then that Labour’s leadership is engaged in a savage battle against its own members.

Sir Keir Starmer’s manoeuvres on the national executive committee (NEC) to deny the chair to Ian Murray of the Fire Brigades Union — because Murray was among those who protested over his removal of the whip from Jeremy Corbyn — provoked a walkout by the entire left group.

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