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LABOUR is set to shun pro-EU campaigns which include Tories and business chiefs, yesterday endorsing a call from a major union to learn the lessons of the party’s defeat in Scotland.
The party’s annual conference called for “a Europe focused on jobs and growth, not more austerity,” and for 16 and 17-year-olds to be given a vote in the upcoming referendum.
But general union GMB’s request for Labour to decide its line on the referendum at a special conference was removed during the “compositing” process — where the various proposers of EU-related motions formed a consensus document to put to conference.
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
