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An excoriating account of the Corbyn years that merits critical engagement
This deeply personal memoir will be controversial across the left, but makes points we should all take on board, argues BEN CHACKO
MISJUDGING THE POLITICAL MOOD: Vote leave supporters in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex

TEN YEARS HARD LABOUR will make you angry — whether you agree with it or not.

Chris Williamson’s deeply personal account of the decade between his first election as a Labour MP in 2010 and the end of the Jeremy Corbyn leadership in 2020 is a painful read.

Most of us were involved, after all, in trying to turn the huge positive potential of Labour’s socialist advance from 2015 into reality and struggled against the slow motion car crash of 2017-19.

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