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The roots of Labour's civil war: the internal battles that ended in the Scottish leader's own constituency being shut down

INVESTIGATION: By Paul Hutcheon and Scottish Political Editor Tom Gordon

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The civil war inside the East Lothian Consituency Labour Party (ELCLP) has been brewing for more than four years, and Anne Moffat, a former nurse and Unison official, is its casus belli. Elected to Westminster in 2001, she has been dogged by controversy ever since.