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LABOUR legend Dennis Skinner has brushed aside Tony Blair’s dire election predictions and exhorted the party to ape the “audacious” socialist vision of its 1945 pioneers to beat the Tories.
In a new year’s rallying call, the stalwart socialist MP said that Ed Miliband could lead Labour to a majority in May that would rank alongside the historic victory achieved by Clement Attlee.
But the Beast of Bolsover made it clear that Labour would not recreate the spirit of ’45 without offering popular left-wing policies.
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
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
