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Lavery slams ‘shameful’ Blairite has-beens

BLAIRITE “bygones” who have spent weeks stabbing Ed Miliband in the back will be told today: End your shameful attacks and join Labour’s fight to turf out the Tories.

Writing in the Morning Star, Labour MP Ian Lavery confronts the right-wing critics for “actively trying to derail any chance of a Labour government in May.”

The former miner says Mr Miliband has however proved himself a “tougher adversary” than expected in the face of the latest onslaught in the gutter press.

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