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Cameron — 'Marx was right'

TORY PM David Cameron finally admitted in Parliament yesterday that “Karl Marx was right,” writes Luke James.

Mr Cameron made the shock declaration at Prime Minister's Questions in answer to a mischievous question about Britain’s attitude to Russia.

Tory backbencher Tony Baldry quoted an article by the founder of communism in the New York Tribune urging Britain to oppose tsarist Russia’s “projects of annexation and aggrandisement.”

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