Daily: BACK IN THE USSR? Author Sergei Lebedev on Russia’s unquiet past

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Margaret Hodge has never been one to bite her tongue. The veteran Labour politician served as a minister under Blair then Brown, saw off the BNP in Barking, and told Jeremy Corbyn exactly what she thought of him. It’s why she’s a self-styled “Battleaxe” – and why it’s the title o ...  Show more

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