Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers

The ‘modernisers’ are curiously stuck in the 1990s – while the party membership has shifted far to the left

issue 01 August 2015

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[/audioplayer]The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce on hustings — but probably not hostilities. It’s clear everyone could do with a bit of a rest, not least because they need time to sit down, scratch their heads and ask how on earth things got to where they are.

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