Hamish Falconer: “We will be forming a government under much harder conditions than 1997”
The Labour rising star on growing up with a father in Blair’s cabinet and his years as chief negotiator with the Taliban.
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Ailbhe Rea is former political correspondent of the New Statesman. You can see the latest political stories in our Politics section.
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