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John McDonnell's last stand

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In the Labour left's wilderness years, it was John McDonnell who saved the faction from oblivion. Never before had Labour's left wielded such power in the party. But McDonnell, now 71, and his allies have since been cast back into the wilderness. Can he once again save the party's left from irrelevance?

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John McDonnell's last stand

In the Labour left’s wilderness years, it was John McDonnell who saved the faction from oblivion. “I know how angry many of you are, but I would ask you to stay in the party and fight,” he wrote in a letter to supporters after failing to make the 2007 Labour leadership ballot. “Don’t mourn, organise.” Over the years, as chair of the Socialist Campaign Group – the faction founded by supporters of Tony Benn in 1982 – McDonnell did just that. Then,…

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