It is sometimes said that this control freakery is a throwback to Labour's traumatic years of exile.

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Some of these undertakings stick in the craw of an army with an understandable instinct for control freakery.

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If he is blocked then all the accusations over control freakery raised during the Welsh leadership selection process are certain to re-surface.

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