How the centre-left has become extreme

August 14, 2017 Melanie

Join me below as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network how political polarisation in both Britain and America is being driven by the shift in the centre of gravity in both the Labour and Democratic parties to the extreme left.

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