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IN the first four months of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour doubled its membership in London to 81,000.
In Scotland, however, the story was very different. The party, then led in Holyrood by Kezia Dugdale, put just 2,000 new members onto its grand total.
Though Corbyn had been well received at rallies north of the border, it seemed like it would take more than a left-wing Westminster leader to challenge SNP hegemony.
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