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Don’t consign Labour Party democracy to the history books
MIKE CUSHMAN asks what's behind Keir Starmer's war on ordinary Labour members

Every day we get news of one or more constituency Labour parties defying the edicts of general secretary David Evans and insisting on debating issues of central importance to party members.

Almost every day we get news that one or more CLP officers have been suspended for allowing their members to debate.

The list of prohibited subjects steadily grows: the pay-offs to those named in the Panorama programme; the findings of the EHRC report; the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn; the removal of the whip from Jeremy Corbyn; votes of no confidence in David Evans; any discussion of any of these bans on free debate.

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