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Blair reveals he 'toyed with Marxism' after reading book on Trotsky

Written By Unknown on Thursday, August 10, 2017 | 4:02 AM

Former prime minister tells BBC Radio 4 that learning about the Russian revolutionary was ‘like a light going on’

Tony Blair has said that he “toyed with Marxism” as a young man after being inspired by a biography of Leon Trotsky that detailed “extraordinary causes and injustices”.

The former prime minister, who rebranded his party “New Labour” in the belief it would be most electable as a centre-ground party, said yes when asked in a BBC interview if he was “briefly a Trot”.

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