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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot

Labour MPs will hope Starmer’s words after far-right rally signal shift in tone

Demonstrators in a large crowd hold up signs saying: 'Refugees welcome. Stop the far right' and 'Racists divide the kingdom'
Demonstrators at a counter-protest to the far-right rally in London on Saturday. Photograph: Joao Daniel Pereira/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

If there is a cause that could be said to unite almost all Labour MPs and members from left to right, it would be equality and anti-racism. Many of them will have spent their early political lives in trade unions, student movements or charities – or working as human rights lawyers.

Over the summer, MPs have agonised about their political futures and that of progressive politics. Missteps on the economy, welfare, Gaza and relations with the parliamentary party have been part of that.

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