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Lucy Powell says ad ‘not to everyone’s taste’ and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell adds party is ‘better than this’

Emily Thornberry has done an interview with the New Statesman [paywall], which is worth a browse over your breakfast on Good Friday, and has said the situation between the Labour party and its former leader Jeremy Corbyn is “very sad”.

Last month Corbyn was barred from standing again for the party, meaning if he wants to win again in Islington North, which he has held since 1983, he will have to stand as an independent.

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