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A realignment of the left in a hung parliament? That is a realistic possibility, according to Robert Taylor
No current opinion survey comes anywhere near predicting that the Labour Party can hope to win an overall parliamentary majority at the general election expected in May. The best Labour can hope for is to have enough seats [...]

As the public are asked to ballot for a seat to hear Gordon Brown’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry next month, more evidence is emerging of how Tony Blair was let off the hook during his session because vital documents given to the Iraq inquiry are not being made public.

Diane Abbott
John Austin
Colin Burgon
Ronnie Campbell
Colin Challen
Michael Clapham
Katy Clark
Harry Cohen
Michael Connarty
Frank Cook
Jeremy Corbyn
Jim Cousins
Jon Cruddas
Ann Cryer
Ian Davidson
David Drew
Bill Etherington
Mark Fisher
Paul Flynn
Neil Gerrard
Fabian Hamilton
Dai Havard
David Heyes
Kelvin Hopkins
Lindsay Hoyle
Brian Iddon
Lynne Jones
Andrew Mackinlay
John McDonnell
Michael Meacher
Alan Meale
Austin Mitchell
Chris Mullin
Gordon Prentice
Ken Purchase
Linda Riordan
Alan Simpson
Marsha Singh
Graham Stringer
Paul Truswell
Joan Walley
David Winnick
Mike Wood

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IN THE imbroglio of the Peter “no ifs, no buts” Hain affair questions are inevitably being asked about why Labour Party officials did not accept Harriet Harman’s suggestion that spending on the deputy leadership campaigns should be capped. The answer is apparently venal. Because the party imposed a 15 per cent levy on all funds [...]

THERE has been a small outbreak of sanity on planet mad. King Abdullah, who presides over Saudi Arabia, has pardoned a female rape victim who was sentenced to jail and
200 lashes for being alone with a man who was raped in the same attack. The custodial sentence and 200 lashes were imposed after the woman [...]

Jill Palmer – Prescriptions

THE National Health Services reaches its 60th birthday next year and, despite political interference, financial restraints and endless criticism, it is still going strong.

Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
by Gao Wenqian
PublicAffairs, £17.99
ZHOU ENLAI – Chou En-Lai in old money – was Prime Minister of China from the time the Communists took power in 1949 until his death in 1976. Reviled during his life by Mao Zedong and the Gang of Four, who would describe his posthumous ideological [...]