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Caitlin Doherty

Any breakaway party should be called ‘Farage assistance group’ – Lord Kinnock

Zarah Sultana, second right, said she was quitting Labour to ‘co-lead the founding’ of a new outfit with ex-party leader Jeremy Corbyn, second left (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

A breakaway party to the left of Labour should be known as the “Farage assistance group”, former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock has said.

Lord Kinnock told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that any “splintering” would “only be of assistance to the enemies of Labour”.

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