Gang of Four: Could the Labour Party split again? - BBC Newsnight

It’s almost exactly 35 years since the Limehouse Declaration. That led to the Labour Party splitting as the “Gang of Four” formed the SDP – partly in protest at the leftward drift of their party. Could history repeat itself? Lewis Goodall looks back at that landmark moment in British political life and asks whether the Labour Party could split again.

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