Labour can’t prop up a crumbling settlement
In this moment of flux we need agile thinkers and campaigners to ensure what emerges is egalitarian and democratic.
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Neal Lawson
Neal Lawson is director of the centre-left pressure group Compass.
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Labour should stop indulging its Scottish party and broker a progressive alliance with the SNP
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Only a progressive alliance can stop the march of the right
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