We need to win back trust, champion progressive patriotism and unite communities failed by the Tories, says shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey
In 1979, the year I was born, Thatcher’s election victory precipitated an attack on our working-class communities, picking apart the bonds that held us together and the institutions that made us proud. I grew up watching my father’s friends lose their jobs. The Shell oil docks where he worked, once a beacon of good pay and security for industrial workers in our area, was shut down, and my family was forced to relocate.
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