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McDonnell brushes off tired Blairite Danczuk’s coup bid

by Our News Desk

JOHN McDONNELL yesterday brushed off threats by a Labour MP to oust party leader Jeremy Corbyn if the party doesn’t perform well in next May’s elections.

The shadow chancellor dismissed the comments made by the anti-Corbyn Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk as “Simon being Simon.”

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