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The leader the party forgot
George Lansbury’s Christian socialism drove him to fight war and social inequality, writes BOB HOLMAN
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HE WAS a Christian socialist who rebuilt the Labour Party after its worst ever electoral defeat, but appears to have been forgotten by the current party leadership.
No, not Tony Blair — but George Lansbury.
Born into poverty in Suffolk in 1859, he grew up in the East End of London where he became attracted to socialism and then to Christianity by the Vicar of Whitechapel who reached out to working-class people.
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