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‘We will keep pushing the Tories back until we win’

LABOUR will seize on Tory infighting over Europe to reverse some of the government’s worst welfare cuts, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has told the Morning Star.

In an interview at the TUC’s disabled workers’ conference, Mr McDonnell vowed to capitalise on the “crumbling” government to try to reinstate disability benefits.

He said: “We are defeating the Tories all the time in a continuous array of defeats, we are going to push them back all we can.

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