13 June 2019, The Tablet

Labour has abandoned its traditional values, says former supporter Julia Langdon

by Julia Langdon
Labour has abandoned its traditional values, says former supporter Julia Langdon

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University of Bradford

 
One of Parliament’s longest serving lobby correspondents and a long-time supporter thinks that Labour’s victory in Peterborough last week has only papered over the cracks. In a very personal reflection, she explains why she has come to believe that it has abandoned its values.
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User Comments (1)

Comment by: Stephen Donaghy
Posted: 13/06/2019 23:36:02
Julia Langdon writes that Alastair Campbell "did more than almost any of the elected politicians of the time to keep his party in government for so long", Would she accept that Campbell's work in the production of the "dodgy dossier" that paved the way for the UK to join the US in the 2003 invasion of Iraq "did more than almost any of the elected politicians of the time" to disillusion the public with politics and pave the way for the rise of UKip and the Brexit Party and the referendum vote to leave the EU.