By the time of the first budget under Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership, Manchester City Council had cut £309 million and planned more that year instead of using the opportunity of a new anti-austerity leader to begin the fight against all cuts. But still, Reform fell from its top position in May’s local elections across Greater Manchester, with the hard-right Restore Britain cutting into their support and polling 8.7% ahead of the Tories on 7.7%, and Labour have inched ahead of them in national opinion polls. It is right that the motion from TUC Women’s Conference to the TUC Congress calls for a “campaign on unifying TUC policy of jobs, homes and services, not racism, to cut across the policies of division of Reform and the far right”.