In England, politics goes nuclear
The U.K.’s Labour leader wants nuclear disarmament, and he’s going to war with his own party to try and get it
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Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren is Maclean’s National Magazine Award-winning London correspondent. Her second novel, A Better Man, was published by HarperCollins in 2015.
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