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The hand of history rested only lightly on their shoulders, but they could not shake it off completely.
The 200 or so volunteers, activists and campaign aides – with one Sue Gray tucked in among them – who lined Downing Street to see in a new, Labour prime minister knew they were there, in part, as extras in a historical re-enactment.