Opinion: Labour needs to stop defending the ‘traditional working class’ and act for all of the country’s poor

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Opinion: Labour needs to stop defending the ‘traditional working class’ and act for all of the country’s poor
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Dividing ‘white working class’ communities and working class migrants and people of colour helps no one. Except, that is, the far right

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