Britain’s Historic Labour Party Heading for Disaster, Fear Lawmakers

“Are we are facing make-up or break-up?” Labour Party lawmaker Mike Gapes considers the question as colleagues scurry around the parliamentary tearoom scheming and hatching plots to unseat party leader Jeremy Corbyn. He then says sadly, “What I worry about is that we might face wipe-out.” The son of a London postman who made good, gaining a place at Cambridge University before rising through Labour ranks to become a member of parliament (MP) in 1992, the near-sighted, rotund Gapes, an...

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