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Winter 2016: Fabian Review

This edition of the Fabian Review focuses on how Labour should look to the local for a route back into power with Jim McMahon MP, Sarah Hayward, Jessica Studdert and Andrew Harrop, plus Mary Riddell interviews Keir Starmer MP. Also in this issue: a US special with James Morris, Thom Brooks on migration and Rachel Reeves on the pioneering woman MP Alice Bacon.

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  • Winter 2016
  • By Kate Murray
  • Published 19 December 2016

This edition of the Fabian Review focuses on how Labour should look to the local for a route back into power with Jim McMahon MP, Sarah Hayward, Jessica Studdert and Andrew Harrop, plus Mary Riddell interviews Keir Starmer MP.

Also in this issue: a US special with James Morris. Thom Brooks on migration and Rachel Reeves MP on the pioneering woman MP, Alice Bacon.


 

Copies are available priced £4.95 from the Fabian Society bookshop – call 020 7227 4900, email  or send a cheque payable to “The Fabian Society” to 61 Petty France, London, SW1H 9EU.

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