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No time to despair: reflections from a young member on the Labour left
TOM RAESIDE, who campaigned in constituencies including North West Durham, gives his take on Labour’s general election loss
Tom Raeside (foreground) out campaigning

I STILL can’t quite comprehend what happened at the general election, but two things strike me from the off.

First, our manifesto and policies must never slip. We have seismically changed the political landscape since 2015. 

It is possible to imagine a country that has free university tuition, takes its utilities into public ownership and prioritises the many and not the few.

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