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The stakes are very high in the battle over Corbyn’s suspension
DIANE ABBOTT argues that the attack is not only on one man, but on ‘Corbynism’ itself — a system that believes in nationalised services and social justice

TONY BENN always used to say quite rightly that politics is not about personalities, it is about issues.

Although Jeremy Corbyn has been a friend and political ally for decades, I oppose his suspension from the Labour Party on political grounds.

Those political issues should be of the utmost concern to everyone in the Labour Party, across the labour movement and to the tens of millions of people in this country, the majority of the population, whose only serious hope of a better life is largely dependent on the election of a Labour government.

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