LABOUR deputy leader Tom Watson has launched a new “social democrat” faction within the party in his latest move to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn.
Around 90 Labour MPs and peers rallied around Mr Watson last night for the group’s first meeting in Westminster.
The mutinous politicians included Blairite and Brownite relics like Lord Mandelson and Baron Blunkett.
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