The Tories' Reshuffle Won't Fend Off Reform's Challenge
The sleepy market town of Epping has become the latest tinder box. Outside the unassuming Bell Hotel, recently converted into a hostel for asylum seekers, there have been violent clashes between far-right thugs and Socialist Worker Party troublemakers who have hijacked a local dispute for their own opposing purposes.
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