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What Is Left? [audio 45min]

The first of two debates exploring the apparently relentless trend of politics towards the centre and asking whether left wing ideologies still have any role in mainstream British political life. Recorded before an audience at the Institute for Public Policy Research, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland asks a panel of self-proclaimed left wing idealogues and Labour party modernisers, including Lord Hattersley and Harriet Harman, if there is anything left of the left.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "What Is Left? What Is Right?"