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John Mann Articles

Horsing about

In just five days, George Osborne’s budget delivered a cabinet resignation, a Labour poll lead and a total reversal on welfare. This meant Labour members of parliament returned to Westminster the following Monday in an unusually optimistic mood. This positivity lasted...
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A quagmire of antisemitism

Like many others we were particularly concerned about the rise in antisemitism this summer both in the United Kingdom and across Europe as a result of the most recent escalation of violence in the Middle East conflict. Party members will have their differing views on...
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Out of the dingy halls and onto the streets

It has become rather easy to be elected as a Labour councillor in Rotherham over the last two decades. First you join the Labour party. Then you turn up at a sparsely attended branch meeting. Then you wait for a councillor to retire. It might be a long wait, but the...
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Floods and fires and sinking plans

It was a subdued prime minister's questions today. Not only had a serviceman, Captain Richard Holloway, been killed in Afghanistan just before Christmas, but only an hour or so earlier the death had been announced of the Labour member of parliament Paul Goggins...
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