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The Network Effect Could Sink Labour

Jim Riley

21st May 2015

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Can the Labour Party disappear? The Party has been a prominent feature of British politics for a century. But could it now just vanish quickly? There is a clear historical precedent. In 1906, the Liberal Party won 399 seats in the House of Commons. It was a great, reforming government, which laid the foundations of the welfare state.

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Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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