Conor Gray
@ConorRGray
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Sussex uni graduate, @bh_younglabour alumnus 🌹 Much Love 💖
Joined November 2018
I wait with baited breath to hear how this brings jobs to working class communities, gets pay up and gets bills down. Or do we just deliberately misunderstand what drives support for reform?
🚨 NEW: Labour has shelved its manifesto pledge to make it easier for people to legally change their gender in a bid to counter Reform UK's surge in the polls [@thetimes]
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I am pleased to announce that in final weeks of December, I received a letter from the Labour Party informing me that the complaint against me that stopped me from standing had been dropped and I return as a full member of both the Cooperative and Labour Parties. Statement ⬇️
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Reform is a party of and for millionaires, which voted against workers’ and renters’ rights, rail renationalisation and GB Energy. We cannot allow them to pitch to Labour’s left. To tackle the cost of living, let’s tax extreme wealth and bring utilities into public ownership.
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Things can and will get better
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The solution to the crisis in higher education is not piling students with even more debt. My column for @LabourList this morning 👇 https://t.co/xF1HSI1pU0
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Last week, Rachel Reeves caused a stir in the right-wing press. As she prepared to deliver the first budget of this government, she replaced a…
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The key lesson of the Trump victory for us is that Labour has to deliver the significant improvement in quality of life that people can feel or we face the rise of right wing populism that has swept America. Half measures won’t be enough.
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Hugely disappointed by today’s announcement. In one of the wealthiest economies in the world, we can surely afford to grant people the right to education. To hike our fees is beyond unfair. Advancing the marketisation of our education system is unnecessary and regressive.
An increase in university tuition fees in England is expected to be announced for the first time in more than seven years, Sky News understands ⬇️
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📣INTRODUCING SUSSEX YOUNG LABOUR 📣 Young members across Sussex played a key role in the General Election, so we're bringing together Brighton, Hove, and Crawley YL to take YL in Sussex to greater heights as part of @YoungLabourSE! Message us to join our WhatsApp group!
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As Equalities Minister, Badenoch attacked trans people and failed to ban conversion therapy. She's called maternity pay excessive and her campaign leaflets argue that autistic people get “economic privileges”. Her election shows that the Tories only care about culture wars.
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Sunak's angry response to the budget is bizarre. Major increases to investment spending are a good thing! His claim that billions could be saved from public spending cuts is a fantasy, and that line of thinking got us into this mess in the first place
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No matter your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society. She should never have been allowed the privilege of resigning. Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago.
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Rachel Reeves: "We said we would act on the carnival of waste & fraud that took place during the covid pandemic... Labour will not stand for it, I will not stand for it... I won't turn a blind eye to rip off artists & fraudsters... we want that money back." #Lab24 #PoliticsLive
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It’s really disappointing to watch some Labour members celebrate the whip being removed from 7 dedicated MPs and suggesting that they have ulterior motives for the way they voted, simply because they’re on the left. Intense factionalism like this will tear the party apart.
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92% of trans young people have thought about taking their own life, and 45% have tried. Access to hormone blockers has been shown to reduce mental ill health for trans people. Gender affirming care saves lives. A ban on puberty blockers for under 18s is wrong.
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🇫🇷"The NFP’s programme is proudly socialist, conscious of the urgency of the climate crisis and addresses much of the social subsidence that’s made room for the growth of the far right." @charilaou_alex on the lessons for Labour from the French left:
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Vive la France! After a hugely disappointing first round contest two weeks ago, which made it look as though the far-right National Rally would form…
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The onshore wind ban has been in place for 9 years. We've been in government for 72 hours, we've lifted it. That's the pace we're going to move at.
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