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ON AN almost daily basis right-wing newspapers and media refer to Jeremy Corbyn as the “hard left Labour leader,” the shadow minister for trade unions Ian Lavery as the “former hard left president of the NUM” and any MP that dares to voice his/her support for Corbyn is automatically branded a “hard left supporting MP.”
The right wing media’s attempts to spray-tag the Labour Party, any newspaper that isn’t owned by Murdoch and anyone remotely involved in a trade union as “hard left” is something most of us have become accustomed to.
After the recent Welsh elections, where I was campaigning for a Welsh Labour victory day-in and day-out, I often heard this term bandied about by activists.
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