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Phil Woolas election ruling in October

Judges delay decision over Labour MP’s ethnically divisive campaign.

By Daniel Trilling

Phil Woolas, the Labour MP who is facing a court challenge to his re-election this year from his Lib Dem opponent, Elwyn Watkins, will now have to wait until October for the court’s decision, reports the BBC.

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