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Ed Miliband has saved Labour from a decade in the political doldrums by suppressing splits that had previously racked the party during periods in opposition, a political historian said yesterday.
Dr Richard Carr, who is leading a special conference on Labour’s “wilderness years” of the 1980s today, told the Star Mr Miliband “deserves credit” for averting a similar crisis after the party’s 2010 election defeat.
He said: “What Miliband has done is avoid the massive split between left and right that was seen in the Labour party in the early ’80s.
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
