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This fascinating historical survey looks at the tensions and dynamics generated by faith in politics...
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This fascinating historical survey looks at the tensions and dynamics generated by faith in politics. Faith helped Keir Hardie start the Labour Party in 1900, but also motivated Philip Snowden, whose departure with Ramsay MacDonald 30 years later nearly destroyed it. The Christian principles which inspired Labour leader George Lansbury in his pacifism later led Tony Blair into military action in Kosovo. Graham Dale traces how belief in God has sustained the Labour Party's leaders and informed their vision throughout the 20th century and into the 21st.
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