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Following the launch of their No Holding Back report on Labour’s loss of working-class support, IAN LAVERY, LAURA SMITH AND JON TRICKETT speak to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about their findings

IAN LAVERY, Laura Smith and Jon Trickett’s No Holding Back report has made headlines, above all with its demand for Sir Keir Starmer to apologise for the party’s support for a second referendum on Brexit.

And among the thousands who attended the Zoom meetings that fed into the report launched on Thursday were many who “had voted Labour forever and a day, but because they voted Leave, they were castigated, criticised, harassed — accused of being right-wing, even fascist. 

“These are the people in our communities who deserve an apology from our party.

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