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15 July 2019updated 08 Sep 2021 2:42pm

Richard Ferrer column

By Richard Ferrer

For 100 years the Labour Party was the broadest church in politics. That all changed the moment it passed into the care of Team Corbyn. Suddenly, faster than Margaret Beckett could put Jeremy on the leadership ballot in order to “broader the debate”, it was bludgeoned into a groupthink mentality that would have Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and even Clement Attlee rolling in their graves.

Those former Labour prime ministers would be sickened to see the ideological and antisemitic depths their cherished party has plumbed.

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