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Saviour or Satan: Why so many people are joining the UK Labour Party right now
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Saviour or Satan: Why so many people are joining the UK Labour Party right now

Should Jez stay or should he go? — Just minuted after the results from the EU referendum been announced, a coup was brewing inside the UK Labour Party. The majority of Labour MPs have had enough of Jeremy Corbyn, the newly-elected left-wing leader who still commands the support of vast swathes of the party nationwide. With a leadership contest on the very near horizon, some 100,000 people had joined Labour since the vote, desperate to have their say.

Written by: Michael Segalov

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