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Francis Beckett

Former Labour leader Keir Hardie addresses a crowd at a peace demonstration in Trafalgar Square in 1914

Labour Party | Opinion

Is Labour losing its religion?

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Len McCluskey at a 2017 demonstration about the state of the NHS

Labour Party | Opinion

Who will follow Len McCluskey in leading Unite?

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Boris Johnson at the G7 alongside Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump

Boris Johnson | Opinion

Boris Johnson: Liar of the land

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Rebecca Long-Bailey and Jeremy Corbyn attend a shadow cabinet meeting

Labour Party | Exclusive

The inside story of how Labour botched its anti-Semitism crisis

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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) alongside shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer

General Election | Exclusive

The inside story of the election defeat that doomed Labour and sealed...

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Former Labour Strategy and Communications Director Seumas Milne

Jeremy Corbyn | Opinion

How the lurch to the left could have gone right

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Right-wing insiders like Laura Ingraham have been criticised by former friend Anne Applebaum. (Phot

How to lose friends who alienate people - how populism has taken over...

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NEW DAWN: Prime minister Clement Attlee celebrates with supporters after Labour's surprise 1945 Gene

The 1945 Rising: What Labour can learn about winning a majority after a...

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A cargo ship keeps trade going during the Covid-19 lockdown. The government is preparing to complete

We are being fattened up for a one-way trade deal with Trump

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Jubilant nurses celebrate VE Day in Liverpool in May 1945, while troops celebrate Armistice Day in L

Opinion

This should be our 1945 moment... but we may only get 1918 instead

Francis Beckett

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