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Former president of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, TOSH McDONALD is the Workers Party candidate for Doncaster Central constituency on July 4. He talks to Morning Star northern reporter Peter Lazenby
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“I’M A working-class lad and I want to look after the working-class people of Doncaster.”
This is how Tosh MacDonald sums up, in a single sentence, why he is standing as candidate for the Workers Party for the Doncaster Central constituency in South Yorkshire in the general election on July 4.
But, in McDonald’s mind, “looking after the working-class people of Doncaster” can mean anything from sorting out problems with local cycle-only lanes to getting Britain out of Nato.
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