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The Wadsworth verdict stamps on our right to hold MPs to account
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LABOUR’S perverse decision to expel black anti-racism campaigner Marc Wadsworth is a watershed moment.

Recent months have seen a resurgence of Establishment attacks on Labour and its leader, resuming a pattern of misinformation and smears that began when Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead the party in 2015.

Corbyn has been attacked for lacking patriotism because he refused to believe everything the Conservatives claimed about the apparent poisoning of Sergei Skripal without seeing some evidence to back it up.

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