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Opinion: a party in denial – Labour’s soap opera

By Matthew Gaughan | Sat 2nd October 2010 - 4:27 pm

This week saw yet more of Labour’s neverending soap opera, which is even more boring now that the party is no longer in power. The soap opera shows a party refusing to challenge either of the oppositional truths of Old and New Labour and unaware of why Labour lost the last general election so emphatically – and what it needs to do to regain power.

The conference demonstrated that Ed Miliband was right when he called Labour party members “slightly strange”, for they seem to be excited and optimistic about the future of the party under a man whose qualities and …

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