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Stale-mate in the Gulf

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

IT’S STILL stale-mate in the Gulf. Trump mouths off his usual threats then backs down claiming a number of his feudal Arab allies had implored him to keep on talking to the Iranians. The Hezbollah resistance is beating back the Israeli invaders who are now penned into positions just across the Lebanese frontier.

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Pressure mounts on Starmer to go

by New Worker correspondent

CALLS ON Keir Starmer to go are growing. Five government ministers resign, including Wes Streeting, the health secretary who has been manoeuvring to depose Starmer for some time, amid reports that more than 80 Labour MPs have privately or publicly urged the Prime Minister to step down. Starmer defiantly tells his diminishing band of followers that he has no intention of resigning as Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting prepare to battle it out when Starmer finally bows to the inevitable and hands in his resignation.

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Editorials

Let the good times roll…

THE RACE for the Labour leadership has begun. Not officially. No leadership challenge has been formally made. No election under rules has been set. Sir Keir Starmer is still at the helm. But no one doubts that his days are numbered as Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham set out their stalls in preparation for the contest to come which will give one of them the keys to Number Ten.

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Back in Brussels…

...all eyes are on the battle for Labour’s top job. Whoever gets it it’s a win-win for the Common Market. Streeting is openly calling for a return to the European Union. Burnham says nothing now that could play into Farage’s hands but only last year he told his supporters that “I want to rejoin the EU. I hope it hap pens in my lifetime…”. Whoever wins, a second referendum looks inevitable. Rejoining the EU is now back on the agenda, and the Remainers are winning the argument given the pathetic leaders of the Brexit camp these days.

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