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Is Corbyn already facing a 'very British coup'?
Corbyn already faces a dirty-tricks campaign from the capitalist class — and it will only worsen if he comes to government, writes NICK WRIGHT

IN CHRIS MULLIN’S televised 1982 novel A Very British Coup, Harry Perkins — played by an entirely convincing Ray McNally — is a left-wing Sheffield MP.

Set in the last decades of the 20th century the story has Perkins becoming prime minister and breaking with all Labour tradition by implementing a progressive programme.

Inevitably dismantling media monopolies, nuclear disarmament, withdrawing from Nato and measures to change the balance of class power galvanise the ruling class to plan his downfall.

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