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Peter Kyle enjoyed one of the 2017 election’s big wins in Hove. He is now in the sights of Momentum, the Corbynites who want to replace moderates with candidates who espouse ‘radical socialist policies’. Last week, there was a clean sweep of nine Corbynites elected to the Local Campaign Forum which organises Labour candidate selection for Hove’s 2019 elections. Jon Rogers, one of them, says: ‘Last time anything significant happened in local government was when the Ken Livingstoneled GLC tested the boundaries of what progressive councillors could do with their positions . . .’ Kyle has been warned.