Overview
- Calling Labour’s agenda “rudderless” and “austerity lite,” Graham said swapping leaders would not win back workers without wholesale policy change.
- She pressed the government to borrow to invest and to impose a wealth tax, arguing recent choices placed the burden on workers.
- Graham denounced the current net zero approach as economic “self‑harm,” warning of a “jobless transition” without parallel investment in new industries.
- She urged using higher defence budgets to buy from British manufacturers as part of a jobs‑first industrial strategy.
- Unite, which withheld endorsement of Labour’s 2025 manifesto, remains publicly estranged from the party, and Graham has not ruled out a 2026 vote on disaffiliation.