Are we entering a new era of left-wing infighting?
Progressives, in pursuit of their goals, often meet a persistent, impenetrable force: other progressives.
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Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Harry Clarke-Ezzidio is policy correspondent at the New Statesman. He covers a range of areas, including the cost-of-living crisis, levelling up, local government and wider social affairs through reports, features, data-led investigations and interviews.
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The UK's forgotten second city is at the apex of a worrying trend.
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Andy Street: “We must not allow people to fall in love with Reform”
The former West Midlands mayor on the case for moderate conservatism.
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After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our…
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Nigel Farage’s mutinous army
Reform’s local election rally in Birmingham was soured by pessimism – and rumblings of internal dissent.
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Mark Fairhurst: “I do not fear the law. I will accept the consequences”
The national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association on the next prison officers’ strike.
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Will the government stop Rosebank?
Net zero and economic growth are not always compatible aspirations.
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Can Labour’s £315m school breakfast plan save a generation?
Without supporting the 900,000 children below the poverty-line who are ineligible for free lunchtime food, the policy risks being…
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