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Momentum accuses Starmer of 'reheated Blairism' after 'Clause IV on steroids' party reform boast
Sir Keir Starmer addresses the Progressive Britain event yesterday

SIR Keir Starmer was accused of “reheated Blairism” today after he vowed Labour’s planned reforms would be like Clause IV “on steroids.”

The Labour leader referred to former PM Tony Blair’s 1995 decision to ditch the party’s constitutional commitment to “common ownership of the means of production” in a speech at the Progressive Britain Conference in central London yesterday.

He said: “This is about taking our party back to where we belong and where we should always have been… back doing what we were created to do.

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