The Independent - London, October 1st, 1998
THE BEAST OF BOLSOVER has finally been caged: 20 years after he first joined Labour's National Executive Committee, Dennis Skinner was removed yesterday amid furious left-wing claims he was the victim of a Blairite "stitch-up".
Allies claimed Mr Skinner narrowly failed to retain his NEC seat as career- conscious Labour MPs who had promised to vote for him "chickened out" after they were issued with numbered papers for the supposedly secret ballot. Mr Skinner had been made to seek re- election by Labour MPs and MEPs after a rule change forced through by Mr Blair barred MPs from representing th...
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