I appeared on Radio 4 with Shirley Williams recently and as we were leaving I asked her if she thought Labour might split if Jeremy Corbyn were re-elected. Would the history of the SDP, which she helped set up in 1981, put off Labour moderates from trying something similar?
She thought it might, but suggested an alternative, which was a ‘non-aggression pact’ between all the left-of-centre parties.
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