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29/08/2016 GMT

Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Former UK Labour politician - Derek Hatton

Is British politics returning to the ideological clashes of the 1980s?

Is British politics returning to the ideological clashes of the 1980s? One of the key figures of that time, Derek Hatton, recalls his battles with Margaret Thatcher's government.

HARDtalk’s Shaun Ley speaks to former UK Labour politician Derek Hatton. In the blue corner, a formidable woman Prime Minister with an enviable opinion poll lead; in the red corner, a left-wing leader of the opposition seen by many on his own side as unelectable. It's how things look today as they did in the mid-1980s when Derek Hatton was the poster boy of Britain's far left. Confronting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over funding for his home city of Liverpool, he gambled by threatening 30,000 council workers with redundancy and lost. He was expelled by the Labour Party. Now Jeremy Corbyn is leader, Derek Hatton wants to come back. Is British politics returning to the ideological clashes of the 1980s?

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