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CLUBBY: Hywell Morgan as Roy Jenkins and Alan Cox as Tony Crosland / Pic: Manuel Harlan
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The Gang of Three
Kings Head Theatre, Islington
★★★★★
THIS excellent play examines the conflictual relationship between three of the Labour Party leading right wingers of the 1970s and ’80s.
The three hander moves to and from between Roy Jenkins (Hywel Morgan), Denis Healey (Colin Tierney) and Tony Crosland (Alan Cox), the plot shifting between various leadership and deputy leadership elections between 1976 and 1980.
All three contest the 1976 leadership election, won by Jim Callaghan. Crosland contested an earlier deputy leadership contest, bringing forth a quip from Healey about coming seventh in a field of five.
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