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In the furore which followed Mr Benn’s recent ‘nationalisation without compensation’ speech one embittered Labour MP was quoted as saying that ‘Now we [the plp] will have to do to him what the Tories did with Powell, isolate him to the point where he excludes himself from the party.’
First published in New Society, 28 January 1982.
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Johnson, R.W. (1985). The Age of Powell and Benn. In: The Politics of Recession. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17722-6_32
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