Mr Militant.

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"AS ONE of Gordon Brown’s inner circle he is seen as a champion of New Labour values, who helped rout the party’s loony left and became a passionate proponent of free market economics. However, it has now emerged that Jim Murphy, the Scottish secretary, flirted with the Revolutionary Communist party (RCP) during his student days and regarded members of Labour’s hard left Militant Tendency as too soft."

Mr Smith would never have credited it.