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The attempt to deselect Frank Field tells you all you need to know about Corbyn’s Labour

4 August 2018

9:00 AM

4 August 2018

9:00 AM

Early in his career — and mine — I got to know Frank Field. Then, as now, he was being persecuted by extremists in his local Labour party. Then, as now, he was serenely uncompromising. Then, he won. But then — the early 1980s — the Bennite faction had not taken over the national party.

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