30 July 2024. Nigel for The Telegraph.
All candidates to lead the Party must demonstrate that they understand the issues that are at stake – and are willing to tackle them
The “era of the culture wars is over”, declared Lisa Nandy in her inaugural speech as the Labour government’s culture secretary on 8 July. Those who imagine that recent rows over gender, race, and colonial history have all been engineered by Conservative governments for grubby political advantage, will nod their heads in vigorous agreement. It’s hardly surprising that left-wing supporters of reigning progressive orthodoxies pretend that dissent is nothing but a Tory artifice …
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