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Starmer’s ‘patriotic turn’ – and what it means
Signalling an end to the Corbyn period’s politics of peace and internationalism is obviously part of the new management’s thinking, but how will such vacuous slogan-peddling fare in an era of multiple crises, asks KEVIN OVENDEN

IT WILL “let torturers off the hook.” The verdict of former chief of defence staff Lord Guthrie on the Overseas Operations Bill is damning.

If you feel in need of political cover for opposing this legislation, you cannot find better.

Yet still the Labour Party whipped its MPs merely to abstain, and Keir Starmer sacked three junior frontbenchers for voting against.

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