PM can't stamp out factions

By John Warhurst
Updated April 19 2018 - 8:18am, first published November 28 2013 - 3:00am

Factions, meaning competing, organised groups within political parties, have a long history. For some time they have been tolerated, but now they are increasingly on the nose within the parties. Yet they are so embedded that they won't be easily eliminated. Each faction often sees itself as the ''true'' party.

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