Liverpool, Regno Unito . Il 28 settembre 2016. Ultimo giorno del partito laburista Conferenza: ex politicante Derek Hatton lascia a metà strada attraverso Jeremy Corbyn's primo discorso come indiscusso leader del lavoro. Derek Hatton è un ex politicante, emittente, proprietà developer, imprenditore e dopo-cena altoparlante. Egli ha acquisito rilievo nazionale come vice leader del Liverpool City Council negli anni ottanta ed era un membro del militante trotskista group Credit: Cernan Elias/Alamy Live News
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Derek Hatton (born 17 January 1948 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is a former politician, broadcaster, property developer, businessman and after-dinner speaker. He gained national prominence as Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s and was a member of the Trotskyist Militant group. After becoming a firefighter, Hatton joined the Labour Party and Militant, a Trotskyist organisation then following an entryist strategy within the Labour Party. As Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council from 1983, Hatton was the most vocal and prominent member of the council's leadership. The Leader of the Council was John Hamilton, a quietly-spoken and much admired local politician. Hatton joined the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 as the council refused to make a rate increase. In June, the council changed tactics and set an illegal "deficit budget" which committed it to spending £30 million in excess of its income, claiming that the excess represented grant "stolen" by central government. Once adopted by the Liverpool District Labour Party and 49 councillors, this policy catapulted Hatton and the city council into massive media attention and conflict with the then-Conservative government. Hatton was expelled from the Labour Party in 1986 for belonging to Militant which had earlier been found to be in breach of the Labour Party's constitution. Hatton argued that Militant was a legitimate Marxist tendency within the Labour Party, but the National Executive Committee voted to expel him by 12 votes to 6. In 1993, Hatton was accused of corruption as Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council. After a lengthy trial, he was found not guilty
