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What makes you think this is entirely down to them (other than the usual eating-your-first-born tropes)? This stuff came to fruition under Labour - as I'm sure you'll acknowledge. Why not look at what both governments had in common? I'd be surprised if it wasn't found to be Home Office mandarins driving the agenda.

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Corbyn is many things but he is definitely not a Blarite! The Labour party could not be making a cleaner break with the Blair era than that they have made by twice electing Corbyn as leader.

He might not be a Blairite (okay, no 'might' about it), but it doesn't preclude him from authoritarian tendencies - he certainly has sympathies for them.

Regardless, I think we're crediting pols too much with an agenda that, IMO, is likely driven by the Home Office.

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