"[After the 2019 general election] Had Corbyn won then, I think things would have been different; I couldn't have stayed in the party."
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Margaret Hodge
Margaret Eve Hodge, Baroness Hodge of Barking DBE PC (née Oppenheimer, formerly Watson; born 8 September 1944) is a British politician and life peer who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking from a by-election in 1994 until the 2024 United Kingdom general election. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served as Leader of Islington Borough Council, London from 1982 to 1992. She has held a number of ministerial roles and served as Chair of
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