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"The Tories had cleaned us out"
One of the unsung Labour victories of the May local elections was in the south London borough of Merton, where a hard-line Tory administration was narrowly beaten, giving the Labour group an overall majority of one vote.
Winning the election, however, is only the start of the problems for Labour, who inherit a bank balance emptied to keep the Poll Tax low this year, and the certainty of a huge crisis in 1991.Socialist Outlook talked to Clir