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‘This is a community that suffers a lot of hate and lives in poverty’

‘This is a community that suffers a lot of hate and lives in poverty’
Andrew Murray catches up with Leicester East MP CLAUDIA WEBBE, who will be standing as an independent in a city stricken by rapacious fashion-brand employers, sectarian frictions and urban decay – a city where principled socialism is more valuable than ever

ZARAH definitely wants her picture taken with her local MP.

The 11-year old, standing in Green Lanes Road, a centre of Leicester’s Muslim community, supports her plea with an irresistible smile.

“I wrote you a letter, and you wrote back,” she reminds Claudia Webbe. “Was it about Gaza?” the MP asks. “Yes it was.”

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