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@Keir_Starmer
Jan 17, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Why I'm standing to be the next leader of the Labour Party. [Thread] cards.twitter.com/cards/18ce547k…
I’ve spent my life fighting for justice, standing up for the powerless and against the powerful.

I’m now standing to be leader of the Labour Party because I believe I can help unite our movement, take on the Tories and build a better future.
When Labour is united, we can achieve anything.

The NHS, the minimum wage, the Equal Pay Act, peace in Northern Ireland: impossible dreams made possible by Labour governments.
We now need to provide an effective opposition to Boris Johnson.

We need to start winning elections again – starting with the local elections in May, building to 2024.

We won’t do that by abandoning our values or the radicalism we have rediscovered.
We are an anti-austerity party. We believe in common ownership. We want to build a more peaceful world through a human-rights based foreign policy. We must hardwire the Green New Deal into every part of our politics.
Those are the pillars on which we can build a radical agenda for the future.

Inequalities of every type – power, education, health and wealth – are now so ingrained that only a fundamental shift can address them.
Our task is to make that agenda relevant to the 2020s and 2030s: to deliver economic justice, social justice and climate justice.

That is a huge task.

This leadership contest can only be one part of it.
With your help and with all parts of the labour and trade union movement coming together, I believe we can win again.

Another future is possible.

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Our communities and planet can no longer afford the Tories' inaction.
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And even if results don’t go your way, well, there’s always next season... 2/5
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It is designed for and by a small elite. 3/5
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