Labour must start standing up for the ‘left behind’ | Nick Cohen

The party has too long ignored the plight of its core voters, especially in the northWhatever the result, Labour’s woes will not pass with this election, for they are woes that afflict social democrats and progressives across the west. Parties that knew how to fight free-market conservatives are struggling against the new nationalist right in Britain, the US and large parts of Europe.Nowhere is the struggle more evident than in the north of England. Gleeful predictions of Ukip wiping out L