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2. Ipsos MORI, ‘Voting Intention in Great Britain (Certain to Vote)’ (Wednesday, 9 April 2008), <
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4. The attack was aimed at the early Fabianism of the Webbs and G. B. Shaw, rather than the contemporary Fabian think-tank — many of the recent publications of which, including Raymond Plant’s, the organisation’s founders would have been deeply suspicious. The contemporary Fabian General Secretary, Sundar Katwaler, played down the differences between the early Fabians and their successors in his response to Collins and Reeves. S. Katwala, ‘The Fabian tradition is a source of fresh ideas, not a poisoned well’, Guardian (Thursday 29 May 2008).
5. BBC, ‘Miliband urges Labour enthusiasm’ (Saturday, 19 January 2008; available from: <
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7197467.stm
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