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The Corbynistas 'getting ready' to wield state power
Nathan Akehurst spoke to JOE GUINAN about his new book People Get Ready about how to build, defend, and outlive a socialist government under Corbyn

I TALKED to Joe Guinan on the morning of May 21, just before leaving the house to vote in European elections that were never supposed to have been held.

Commons leader Andrea Leadsom had resigned the previous night and the headlines were full of descriptions of a besieged Theresa May, sofas upended against the doors of No 10.

It was a real-time study in the fluid, surreal, accelerating dimensions of 2019 politics and a good backdrop to discuss Joe Guinan and Christine Berry’s new book, People Get Ready.

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