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Anti-Corbyn MP John Spellar joined four Tory MPs and one from the DUP on the Henry Jackson Society “UK-US Legislators’ Conference” in Oxford before Christmas.
It was a weekend away organised by the HJS to mix up British and US politicians to hear a series of right-wing talks.
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