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- EXCLUSIVE: 83% of Labour members believe their party should back proportional representation, up from 76% two years ago, new polling by YouGov finds:
- NEW: Unite policy conference votes to oppose first-past-the-post and support UK electoral reform in victory for proportional representation campaigners:
- A new campaign group for gay and bisexual rights but not transgender rights has been formed in the Labour Party
- Conservative Party made EHRC "part of the government machine", says Jeremy Corbyn: bit.ly/3dngUDp
- NEW: Keir Starmer calls for a general election and declares that the Labour Party is a "changed" party that is "confident" and "preparing to go into power" while the Tories are "completely exhausted" and "clapped out":
- There is no good Brexit - Labour needs to restart the Remain fight, writes @Manuel_TSSA bit.ly/2sJTFfg
- NEW: 17 Labour MPs – including former leader Jeremy Corbyn – have described the Prime Minister's coronavirus statement as a "thinly veiled declaration of class war":
- NEW: Stella Creasy appointed chair of Labour Movement for Europe, calling on her party to offer a "Labour government unafraid to fight for their future within Europe, not outside it":
- “I’ve read the 11,500 words. We were told there was going to be 14,000. So there’s 2,500 missing. That must be where the politics was.” @johnmcdonnellMP at Socialism Wins in the Ambassador room at #Lab21 today.
- Keir Starmer has been given a boost thanks to YouGov polling that shows he has a net approval rating of +23, which is higher than that of the Prime Minister:
- NEW: Keir Starmer has launched a new Labour Friends of the Forces engagement programme to "open up Labour again to our armed forces": bit.ly/3i6pXv7
- 91% of Labour members continue to support nationalising mail, rail, energy and water in polling that shows that the membership overwhelmingly still back the 2019 manifesto policies: buff.ly/34fG2YP
- BREAKING: Eleven executive committee members of Islington North’s Constituency Labour Party have publicly vowed to support former MP Jeremy Corbyn’s independent campaign, either quitting or risking expulsion from the party. Read more here:
