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Pro-EU Blairite Pat McFadden joins Labour Party front bench
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Blairite former minister Pat McFadden returned to Labour’s front bench yesterday to make a “patriotic” case for Britain remaining in the EU.
Labour leader Ed Miliband appointed Mr McFadden shadow Europe minister in a mini reshuffle on Monday evening.
Left MP Kelvin Hopkins had suggested in Parliament on Friday that there were leading MPs who “privately support a referendum” on Britain’s EU membership.
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