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Sour grapes Dugher lashes out at Star

MICHAEL DUGHER lashed out at the Morning Star this weekend as he aired sour grapes at being dumped from the shadow cabinet.

The Barnsley East MP gave the keynote address at the annual conference of the right-wing Labour First faction.

He criticised the involvement of former London mayor Ken Livingstone in the party’s defence review and claimed that abandoning Trident would lead to “electoral disaster.”

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