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Labour ‘will be more radical than Attlee’
McDonnell: We’ll clear way for a new society

THE next Labour government will be more radical than Clement Attlee’s pioneering post-war administration, shadow chancellor John McDonnell vowed at the weekend.

After defeating Winston Churchill’s Tories in 1945, Attlee’s single-term government gave birth to the NHS and welfare state and brought coal, electricity and rail into public ownership.

Mr McDonnell said that Labour can “lay the foundations of a new society that is radically fairer, more equal and more democratic” if it takes power in 2020.

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