WHEN shadow chancellor John McDonnell pledged at last week’s party conference that a future Labour government would be driven by socialism, his words echoed those of Fabian socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb who, from 1923, lived in Passfield, Sidney having been credited with writing the original Clause IV of the

party’s constitution.

Lorna Wallis looks at the lives of the Webbs before they bought their country home and what drove Beatrice to seek the quiet country life.

For full story, see this week’s Bordon Herald.