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Civil war looms for Labour Oliver Dean Having enjoyed the backing of close to the entirety of the PLP, Burnham appears to have fallen at the first hurdle after entering Number 10. The party’s liberal wing was not to blame. — Badenoch’s positioning on Net Zero is brave – because the numbers are not really in her favour Patrick English It can be argued that the Net Zero positioning is less against climate change action itself, but one rooted in economics. On nationalisation they’ll argue that Labour is following their lead, on welfare, they will be avoiding the same tough choices.
- ▪Civil war looms for Labour Oliver Dean Having enjoyed the backing of close to the entirety of the PLP, Burnham appears to have fallen at the first hurdle after entering Number 10.
- ▪The party’s liberal wing was not to blame. — Badenoch’s positioning on Net Zero is brave – because the numbers are not really in her favour Patrick English It can be argued that the Net Zero positioning is less against climate change action
- ▪On nationalisation they’ll argue that Labour is following their lead, on welfare, they will be avoiding the same tough choices.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 18 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean right. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Civil war looms for Labour Oliver Dean Having enjoyed the backing of close to the entirety of the PLP, Burnham appears to have fallen at the first hurdle after entering Number 10. To justify these types of actions – these ideological purges and unfunded commitments – one requires some type of Great Leap Forward. — ‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh Giles Dilnot If Andy Burnham and Louise Haigh really do think Britain’s current problems started because of the Thatcher years, I’m very much afraid he will try to borrow solutions from the past which will not tackle our profound and monumental challenges as a country but make our future a darned sight worse.
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