In 2016, Liz Truss warned of the cost of leaving the single market
ALAMI
For decades 1931 was spat out as an indictment at Labor conferences, used as a metaphor, repeated as a warning. This was the year Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labor Prime Minister, joined the Tories to form a national government. The year MacDonald turned traitor, Labor argued.
After 1931 every Labor leader in turn was accused of being a new MacDonald, abandoning true socialism and becoming a “Tory”.
The problem, of course, wasn’t really that Labour, after an extraordinary run of bad luck, elected one leader after another who was secretly a double agent. It was that the left wanted them to say or do things that were either impossible, impossibly vague, or electorally untenable, and sometimes all three.
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