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JEREMY CORBYN paid tribute to former Labour MP and “tireless social justice campaigner” Candy Atherton yesterday, following her death.
Ms Atherton, who was MP for the Cornish seat of Falmouth & Cambourne from 1997 to 2005, died in her sleep on Monday night, reportedly following a short illness, aged 62.
Up until her death, she was a member of Cornwall Council.
Tony Benn’s constituents chose him by an overwhelming majority — but because he had inherited a peerage, parliamentary rules declared their choice invalid, writes MAT COWARD
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
