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Lammy postures, but Haringey remembers the real Corbyn
The current MP for Tottenham might want to ‘distance’ himself from Corbyn’s socialist politics now, but his constituents haven’t forgotten the day the young councillor took the fight to the National Front in 1977, writes KEITH FLETT
Jeremy Corbyn (opposing NF)

JEREMY CORBYN’S Haringey years have led to lasting respect in the area.

I last saw Corbyn in person just before the first lockdown in early March 2020 when he delivered the 20th anniversary Bernie Grant lecture at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham.

His speech that day ranged across issues from anti-racism, the history of slavery and the rise of Black Sections in the Labour Party.

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