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Just what Tom Watson needs: a Bananarama tribute band

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26 September 2015

8:00 AM

26 September 2015

8:00 AM

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Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said that leaving his party to join the Liberal Democrats would be like ‘leaving the Beatles to join a Bananarama tribute band’. Is there such a thing? Bananaruma is a Leicester-based band led by the head of arts at a local secondary school.

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