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Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

The Interview vor 10 Jahren

Is British politics returning to the ideological clashes of the 1980s?

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HARDtalk’s Shaun Ley speaks to former UK Labour politician Derek
Hatton. In the blue corner, a formidable woman Prime Minister
with an enviable opinion poll lead; in the red corner, a
left-wing leader of the opposition seen by many on his own side
as unelectable. It's how things look today as they did in the
mid-1980s when Derek Hatton was the poster boy of Britain's far
left. Confronting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over funding
for his home city of Liverpool, he gambled by threatening 30,000
council workers with redundancy and lost. He was expelled by the
Labour Party. Now Jeremy Corbyn is leader, Derek Hatton wants to
come back. Is British politics returning to the ideological
clashes of the 1980s?