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England is restless, change is coming

The Labour MP and senior shadow cabinet member calls for a constitutional convention to wrest power from the UK's unaccountable, neoliberal elite.

By Jon Trickett
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Labour politician Jon Trickett speaks to the media outside the Institute of Engineering in London in 2017
Labour politician Jon Trickett speaks to the media outside the Institute of Engineering in London in 2017

Labour politician Jon Trickett speaks to the media outside the Institute of Engineering in London in 2017. Image: Yui Mok/PA Archive/PA Images.

This article is based on the speech given to IPPR London on 14 May 2018 and includes some of Jon Trickett’s answers in the discussion. 

My purpose today is to make a big argument about the state of politics in England. Namely, without radical devolution we are not going to achieve social justice.

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