Next week, you should expect to hear a lot more from the Labour Party. Why? Because the Commons will be in recess, and opposition parties tend to use the recess to make announcements and try to get noticed.
They do this for a simple reason: it’s really hard for an opposition party to get any coverage, particularly (as was the case for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party from 2015-17 and is the case for Keir Starmer’s Labour now) when the government has a majority and announcements from the opposition party are essentially completely uninteresting.
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