Keir Starmer’s hollow state
Labour’s planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel Farage.
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Oliver Eagleton
Oliver Eagleton is an associate editor of New Left Review and author of The Starmer Project.
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