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Richard Burgon announces 'peace pledge' to stop party backing foreign wars if elected deputy leader
Richard Burgon addresses a Stop the War rally opposing war with Iran last month

SHADOW justice secretary Richard Burgon is announcing plans to push for a Peace Pledge to stop Labour backing illegal wars.

Mr Burgon, who is campaigning to be elected deputy leader of the Labour Party, makes the announcement tonight at a public meeting in Oxford.

The Labour Peace Pledge would see the party constitution changed so that it couldn’t back military action abroad without the explicit vote of party members, except in a case of “a genuine national emergency” or where there is UN backing. 

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