John McDonnell: “To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist…”

The scale of sentences on the four young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on…

Any welfare reform must be based upon a strategy of providing positive support to people rather than punitive sanction.

Keir [Starmer] has to recognise that it is time to move on. Let’s plan it properly; let’s not divide the party, let’s try and do it with a bit of dignity and what we describe in the party as comradeship.

Makerfield was a tremendous victory because it stopped Reform in its tracks. The progressive Left united to defeat the divisive politics of the Right.