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Terry Lewis, the rebellious Labour MP who called everyone “kid” and tore up his party card in protest, died at 90 after a lifetime of standing against the mainstream — from opposing wars and austerity to championing public health warnings on cigarettes. A fixture of the “awkward squad” alongside Dennis Skinner and Bob Cryer, he voted against his own party nearly 50 times in one parliament and left Parliament in 2005, only to return under Jeremy Corbyn. Rooted in Manchester’s post-war left and trade union culture, Lewis was as passionate about football as he was about socialism — and even in retirement, he kept searching for a true socialist alternative.

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