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The barring of Jeremy Corbyn: what next for the left?
Two main strands of thinking have emerged since news of Starmer preventing the former Labour leader standing for the party again. ANDREW MURRAY offers some suggestions that might help socialists to regroup and develop a revived strategy
Should left-wing Labour members avoid risking expulsion to 'fight another day' — or has the possibility of fighting another day now been ended by Starmer's restructuring of the party?

TWO responses have emerged on the left to the decision of Keir Starmer to bar Jeremy Corbyn from continuing to represent Islington North as Labour MP.

They have been neatly expressed. Take first Jon Lansman, Momentum founder, who I first encountered when he ran Tony Benn’s narrowly unsuccessful campaign to be Labour’s deputy leader back in 1981.

Jon’s persistent campaigning on and for the left through sunshine and rather more rain should command general respect.  

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