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Tom Watson is Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East.
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Legal advice on UK Air Strikes on Syria
Over the weekend I commissioned advice from Professor Dapo Akande, Professor of Public International Law at Oxford University and one of the UK’s pre-eminent legal experts on international law, on the legality of the strikes on Syria carried...
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The 'traitor' accusations against Jeremy Corbyn are nothing but baseless right-wing propaganda
Over the past week some Tory-supporting publications have published a string of completely false and ridiculous smears,calling Labour politicians traitors and linking them with Soviet bloc spies. Let’s call these stories out for what they are – propaganda, not journalism. They are not worth the paper they are written on. The...
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Arrogant Murdoch must never be allowed to take full control of Sky
The Competition and Markets Authority has done something that too many politicians over the last 30 years have failed to do: stand in the way of the Murdochs. Tasked with assessing the effect of the Fox takeover bid for Sky, the CMA’s provisional conclusion was clear. The merger “would result...
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