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Andrew Adonis, a master of social media – and a model of social mobility

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

The news over Easter that Lord Adonis, the counterweight to nominative determinism, was standing as a Labour Remain MEP was greeted with a fair degree of scepticism. Many commented that it would be a novelty for him to stand for anything — in his early twenties he became an SDP councillor in Oxford, but that’s the last time he was elected to anything.

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