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Tories play the Trump card
Donald Trump’s interference in the British general election is as unwarranted as it is undemocratic, writes MURAD QURESHI

WHILE the focus has been on Russian interference in British politics, we should not forget the interventions of the President of the US, Donald Trump.
As soon as the general election campaign began Donald Trump returned to his running commentary on British politics to again attack Labour’s leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Speaking to Nigel Farage — of all people — on LBC he said “Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he’d be so bad, he’d take you on such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places.”
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