Progressive coalition. Those two words haven’t been tied together too frequently since
Gordon Brown scrambled for survival in the aftermath of the election. But Harriet Harman invoked them in her speech to the TUC today,
and she wasn’t talking about a union between Labour and the Lib Dems:
“We are witnessing an emerging political movement amongst progressives in Britain – beginning to see that the Tory/Lib Dem government has no mandate. They are seeing the difference between what they thought they voted for and what they ended up with. The Labour movement is their vehicle for progressive change. We will work together – Labour and the Trade Unions – to fight against poverty, fight for fairness and fight for those who most need our help. Congress, we are fighting back.”
Mostly, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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