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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dominic McGrath

Starmer: Reforming Labour is Blair’s Clause Four moment ‘on steroids’

PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer will claim that his project of reforming Labour is an “on steroids” version of Sir Tony Blair’s symbolic rewriting of Clause Four.

The Labour leader will draw a link to Sir Tony’s momentous 1995 decision to ditch the party’s constitutional commitment to “common ownership of the means of production”, in a speech where he is also expected to stress that his vision for the party is more than just distancing it from the Corbyn era.

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