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Gerald Kaufman, who has just died aged 86, at least fulfilled his wish of remaining an MP until the end of his life. He represented a tough...

There isn’t generally anything much that’s epochal about a parliamentary by-election in Britain. Each returns a single Member of Parliamen...

Let’s wind the clock back to 1981. Specifically, to 25 January. This is the day when four former Labour cabinet members, known as the Gang o...

The main mouthpiece of British high Toryism, the Daily Telegraph , is involving itself in a Labour Party election. The Telegraph gets s...