Chris McLaughlin is a British

United Kingdom

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 journalist, who since 2004 has been editor of the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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-supporting weekly UK magazine Tribune

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Previously McLaughlin was political editor of the Sunday Mirror

Sunday Mirror

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, deputy Political Editor of the Mail on Sunday, European Editor and deputy Political Editor of The Scotsman and a columnist on The Big Issue

The Big Issue

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, and until 1987 worked for Labour Weekly, the now closed official Labour Party newspaper.

McLaughlin served as a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Newham

London Borough of Newham

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for four years.