Maxine Peake on Ellen Wilkinson
Great Lives
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The History of the Labour Party
The Labour Party didn't support the Jarao march because they believed it had these communist elements to it. But in pretty much 90% of the towns that they stopped in people were giving them a feel like Harrogate, this massive conservative kind of stronghold. It was him and my mum making it personal about my grandad when he used to be collecting for the communist party. So there's always things on me but yeah, but it's interesting because the Labour Party then did sort of take it on as one of the, you know, it's become bedded in Labour, the Labour movement sort of history. Initially they... What did it achieve? Immediately, not very much did
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