It's Starmer versus the Sourdough Socialists: Foot battled Bennites. Kinnock fought Militant. But the current Labour leader faces the oddest Left-wing cult yet

Many Labour leaders have had to face down radical irritants in their party. Poor old Michael Foot spent as much time battling Bennites - named after firebrand Labour MP Tony Benn - as he did Thatcher.

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