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No holding back: we in Labour need to be radical
We must nurture working-class leaders and champion working-class communities inside the Labour Party and in general — and we will reach them only with a message that promises deep-seated change, argues IAN LAVERY MP
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FOR 40 years and more Labour has been letting down what was once its base.

As a party we moved away from a radical reimagining of society and offered little more than something slightly less bad than the Tories.

It is certainly not just a problem here in Britain: across Europe and the globe, left-of-centre parties have followed similar fates.

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