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Adonis warns anti Corbynites not to repeat SDP’s error

ARCH-BLAIRITE Andrew Adonis warned Jeremy Corbyn’s critics within Labour yesterday that it would be a “huge mistake” to form a breakaway party.

The peer, who led the Downing Street policy unit under Tony Blair, is not a natural ally of the left-wing Labour leader.

He caused considerable embarrassment for Mr Corbyn when he took a job as head of Chancellor George Osborne’s new National Infrastructure Commission.

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