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Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service with me Charlotte.

Today we're going to tell you the tale of how a not very famous British

member of parliament briefly became a topic on Twitter, the top trend in the UK and

possibly even the world. The man in question is Tom Watson from Britain's Labour

Party. You might remember them from the 90s.

This song was used in Labor's election campaign in 1997.

They won and Tony Blair became

Prime Minister. More than 20 years after that election win, Labour and now the main

opposition party led by Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing politician

who has a large following, particularly among young people. But news coverage hasn't

been very positive in recent months.

There's been an ongoing debate about whether the Labour Party has been failing to tackle

anti-Semitism among its members.

Earlier this month, one Saturday night the front page article of the British newspaper

the observer was published online it featured comments from Tom Watson the

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