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Margaret Beckett on the difference a year makes

Ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett says the atmosphere at the first Parliamentary Labour party meeting since the general election was "very different" to a year ago, "it was an incredibly united".

Last June, following mass resignations from the frontbench by those who had little confidence in the Labour leader, many thought the party was close to splitting.

At the time, Dame Margaret was interviewed on Radio 4's Today programme where she expressed her despair...

(Photo: Labour peer Dame Margaret Beckett. Credit: PA)

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