Leaving the Labour party is uniquely traumatic, as Luke Bozier has just discovered – and I know all too well
Even now, exactly 17 years later, I can still remember the sense of anxiety gripping me on that fateful morning. The storm was about to break. I had taken a step that would irrevocably change my life.

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