The threat from Truss and Sunak
Whether Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister on 5 September, the Tory regime will shift even further rightwards — unless the labour movement hobbles it. The heat the Tory leadership contest has generated should not obscure the fact that Sunak and Truss are not so much on the same page as in the same paragraph. In many respects the Tories’ position is weak. The new government will, for a while, be constrained by multiple crises. Yet those crises pose a greater threat to the working class and labour movement, unless we act more decisively. Liz Truss is more “on a holiday from reality”...