UK Labour Party eyes election, sets out left-wing economic agenda

Liverpool

BRITAIN's opposition Labour Party promised on Monday to take on big business and borrow to protect struggling industries, setting out a left-wing economic agenda it hopes will re-engage with working class voters who backed leaving the European Union.

Predicting a snap election next year, Labour is using its annual conference to outline plans to win back the voters that abandoned the party at a 2015 election and spurned the political establishment by backing Brexit. Having won with an increased mandate, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is set on shifting the party further to the Left, away from the pro-business centre ground that delivered it its last spell in power between 1997 and 2010.