"[The working class] have delivered their verdict. They have painted the ballot boxes of our towns and swathes of the Midlands and the North turquoise and even green. They have done so using the brush of decades of Labour failure. Labour ministers can loyally read out lists of their achievements, but no one is listening. If every one of those achievements were in stereo, they wouldn't even touch the sides of the vision that is needed now."
"We are stuck in a rigged system where everyday people always, always pay. Only fundamental, irreversible change will stem the tide. If the party does not shift decisively towards the working class it is finished. It is change or die. Now or never."
"Ms Graham has increasingly criticised Labour's economic and industrial strategy in recent months, arguing the party risks losing touch with its traditional voter coalition if it fails to focus more aggressively on wages, industry and living standards."
"In a stark intervention, the head of Labour's largest union backer said the "writing's on the wall" for the party unless it reconnects with working-class voters who she claimed now feel "abandoned"."
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham warned Labour must change or face collapse after bruising local election results. She said working-class voters feel abandoned and have delivered their verdict by voting against Labour in towns and across the Midlands and the North. She criticized Labour’s economic and industrial strategy, arguing the party risks losing touch with its traditional coalition unless it focuses on wages, industry, and living standards. She said Labour ministers list achievements that no longer persuade voters and described the system as rigged so everyday people always pay. She called for fundamental, irreversible change toward the working class, warning the party is finished without decisive shifts.
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