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Hacks left in the cold at Labour conference

Jeremy Corbyn’s relationship with the MSM has long been a strained one. When the Labour leader isn’t bad-mouthing hacks, he’s telling them that he will ‘democratise’ their publications. So, perhaps it should come as little surprise that journalists have found themselves left out in the cold at this year’s Labour conference.

Hacks arrived to find themselves not in the main building but in a tent outside in the cold. Adding insult to injury, to find it one must follow the ‘dog exercise’ area signs.

To borrow the words of Chuka Umunna: won’t Corbyn ‘call off the dogs’?

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