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The Tory Right Stir...Yet Again

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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The Tory Party's Rise to the Right

Tory party has been gripped by Benite themes when at the time they portrayed him as the great sort of Stalinist threat to Britain. But there's another twist. When Ben was making the case, it was only Labour MPs who elected a leader that changed for the 83 leadership contest when you're kinac won. In 1980, when Michael Foote became Labour leader, he was elected solely by MPs. So he was speaking from a context where the party membership really did have limited influence certainly over electing a leader. This lot gathering in Bournemouth for this insurrectionary conference, they've elected leader after leader. And look what's happened. They had power without responsibility because the chaos that

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