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Labour movement ‘morally diminished’ by failure to defend Corbyn, says Andrew Murray
Author and campaigner calls for left strategy to resist Starmer's purges
Author and campaigner Andrew Murray

A LABOUR movement that stands aside while Jeremy Corbyn is hounded out of the party he recently led stands “morally diminished,” Andrew Murray told a packed crowd at the Walkers of Whitehall bar on Tuesday night.

The trade union veteran was speaking at the official launch of his new book Is Socialism Possible in Britain? which seeks to draw lessons from the defeat of the Corbyn project.

The left’s failure to do more to oppose the vilification of a man who, “more or less against his will,” became the standard bearer for the socialist transformation of the country for five difficult years was shameful, Mr Murray said.

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