A sign of the times was the number of people passing by shouting in support: “Get the Tories out” and “Fuck the Tories”.

There were two ways people approaching our Socialist Party campaign stall reacted to the Tories ‘budget for the rich’. A few were in despair as to how we were ever going to get rid of the Tories. But more people felt that they needed to do something.

Many see the current strike wave as key to pushing Truss back, and agreed with our call to back up the strike wave with a working-class political alternative.

Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party