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Class metamorphosis in Starmer’s Labour
As more of us find ourselves locked out or expelled by Labour, a simple explanation of the leadership's motivation lies with their personal social aspirations, writes ANYA COOK

IT’S a fair cop! I have been caught — in a “prohibited act.”

My Labour Party membership days have been numbered since appealing last summer’s investigation into sharing a 2021 Facebook event about the Grunwick Strikes, hosted by an organisation not proscribed until 18 months later.

Momentum’s solicitor contacted me for appeal details because I was then one of two people who had appealed successfully of the hundreds of members expelled.

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