Labour leadership candidate says clause does not go far enough, and party needs to ‘tackle widening inequality itself’Yvette Cooper has sought to energised her determined late hasten for the Labour leadership by announcing she wants to rework the famed clause IV of Labour’s constitution so that it includes a new explicit commitment to champion equality.
The shadow domestic secretary said that the current clause IV– rewritten two decades ago by Tony Blair in a symbolic ideological shatter with Labour’s previous commitment to public ownership – was striking in that it calls only for equality of opportunity.
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Source: theguardian.com