Conference Headlines – Corbyn to attack ‘greed is good’ capitalism
Today’s Labour Party Conference Headlines include Corbyn’s speech expected to attack ‘greed is good’ capitalism, 400,000 new jobs in Corbyn’s ‘green revolution’ and Labour to commit to expanding free childcare.
Corbyn to use speech to attack ‘greed-is-good’ capitalism’
The Guardian reports that the theme of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to conference today will be an attack on ‘greed-is-good’ capitalism, setting out policies to reach areas which he argues have been left behind. Measures he will reveal include a ‘green jobs revolution’ and the extension of free childcare to more families.
400,000 new jobs in ‘Corbyn’s green revolution’
The Times has more details of what it calls ‘Corbyn’s green revolution’. He will pledge to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2050, scrap planning restrictions on wind farms, increase public subsidy for renewable energy, use public spending to improve domestic energy efficiency and compel landlords to make similar changes. He will claim that these plans would result in 400,000 new jobs.
Starmer receives standing ovation over second Brexit vote
According to the Financial Times, Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer won a standing ovation at conference yesterday when he told delegates that Labour had not ruled out holding another referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. His comments that ‘nobody is ruling out Remain as an option’ were not in the version of his speech originally circulated to journalists, suggesting that he may have been defying the leadership.
Labour commit to expanding free childcare
The Guardian are reporting that Labour will extend the current programme of 30 hours of free childcare to benefit over a million extra children. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will announce today in his speech that under Labour, the scheme would cover all parents of children between the ages of two and four. Corbyn will also commit to additional subsidised hours for families on the lowest incomes.
Anti-Semitism rules introduced to ease attacks on Corbyn, McCluskey says
The Telegraph have picked up on comments made by Unite boss Len McCluskey, in which he said Labour had adopted the IHRA definition on anti-Semitism to stop attacks on their leader. In a speech at Labour conference, McCluskey compared the recent scandal to the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’, and said that events had strengthened the Palestinian cause.
Thornberry compares Labour anti-Semites to fascists
The Daily Mirror says that Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry used her conference speech to compare anti-Semites in the party to Oswald Mosley. She said that while ‘we all support the Palestinian cause’ there are members who use it as ‘a cover for their despicable hatred of Jewish people’, and they must be ‘kicked out of our party’.
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