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PLOTTERS seeking to oust Jeremy Corbyn are involved in a sneaky “dark arts” operation to get rid of him without sparking another Labour Party rebellion, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has charged.
Mr McDonnell said some Labour MPs in alliance with the Murdochowned media are hell-bent on “destroying” Mr Corbyn’s leadership to reclaim the party for capitalists.
He accused the “covert coup plotters” of wanting to undermine Mr Corbyn through “an exceptionally wellresourced ‘dark arts’ operation of the old spin school” in an article posted on the Labour Briefing website on Sunday.
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
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LAURA DAVISON traces how Murdoch’s mass sackings, political deals and legal loopholes shattered collective bargaining 40 years ago – and how persistent NUJ organising, landmark court victories and new employment rights legislation are finally challenging that legacy
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership