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The Labour Party: For the money not the few?
SEAN RANKIN and STEVEN McCRACKEN investigate which groups and which individuals have been funding Corbyn and Starmer

THE Labour Party is engulfed in a factional dispute that seems to grow more serious by the day.

Despite pledging to bring unity to the party, Sir Keir Starmer has taken a series of controversial decisions that have deepened fault-lines between what we might call Labour’s socialist and centrist wings.

An unfortunate byproduct of factional disputes is that facts can become secondary.

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