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Opinion: Labour’s Leadership Candidates Need a Reckoning, Not a Whitewash
Changing one's mind is part of anyone's political development, but if a leadership contest is to be more than an exercise in political shapeshifting, the candidates need to account for their political histories, argues Michael Chessum.