BRITAIN’S labour movement must focus on kicking out the Con-Dem coalition once and for all following David Cameron’s “cosmetic” reshuffle, communists said yesterday.

Communist Party of Britain general secretary Rob Griffiths said the changes were a “PR exercise which indicates the kind of general election campaign we can expect from the Tories.”

He warned that the Tories will return to their usual union-bashing at their Birmingham conference in September.

“While the coalition’s reactionary policies will stay the same, they will dress up in the union flag and use their party conference to launch a wide-ranging attack on democratic rights, more specifically on trade unionism and the European Convention on Human Rights,” he said.

“Demagogic attacks on strikers and the EU will be designed to win votes from Ukip.

“All of this emphasises the importance of mobilising huge protests at the Tory Party conference and on the TUC’s Britain Needs a Pay Rise demonstration on October 18.”

Mr Griffiths said trade unions and the People’s Assembly should do everything possible to ensure Labour draw up a winnable general election manifesto for next May.

The No2EU — Yes to Workers’ Rights stalwart also explained the promotion of Michael Fallon to Defence Minister and Lord Hill to EU Commissioner showed the government’s allegiance to the bosses’ bloc.

Mr Cameron attended a posh dinner of EU leaders in Brussels last night in an attempt to land Mr Hill the trade, internal market or competition portfolios.

European Parliament president Martin Schulz said however that MEPs were unlikely to support Mr Hill because of his “radical anti-European views.”