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Why we should rally in support behind Chris Williamson
The Derby North MP has paid the price for putting his head above the parapet and being the voice of all of us on the radical left – he now needs our solidarity, says JYOTI WILKINSON

APART from the birth of my daughter, the proudest day of my life was June 8 2017.

Standing on a genuinely transformative and progressive manifesto, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour had inflicted a shock and overturned the Tory government’s majority.  

This was polling day after Theresa May had called the snap general election, and also the day that we had returned Chris Williamson MP — who had declared himself the most pro-Corbyn candidate in Britain — to his rightful place representing Derby North in the House of Commons. 

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