'Labour Must Give Power Back To The People To Fend Off Farage's Shallow Offering'

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/6911eccf15000077429c2bb6.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Chris Hinchliff believes Labour must give power back to communities in order to combat Nigel Farage (above) and his rise in the opinion polls." data-caption="Chris Hinchliff believes Labour must give power back to communities in order to combat Nigel Farage (above) and his rise in the opinion polls." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Chris Hinchliff believes Labour must give power back to communities in order to combat Nigel Farage (above) and his rise in the opinion polls.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>Last week I voted against <a href="news/nigel-farage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nigel Farage’s </a>attempt to tear Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights. To me it exposed the emptiness of <a href="news/reform-uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reform UK’s</a> offering to the British people.</p><p>Farage feeds off the sense of powerless that runs through England; but his is a cold politics providing only someone to blame, not real agency over our lives or the urgent action to raise living standards people are so rightly demanding.</p><p>Part of the solution, to me, is obvious – <a href="news/labour" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Labour</a>, the genuine inheritors of the traditions of mass politics in this country, must champion giving power back to the people. </p></div><blockquote class="content-list-component pull-quote">
Labour won’t win back those tempted by Reform with indignation and factual corrections – no matter how egregious Farage’s lies
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