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Rebecca Long-Bailey makes opening pitch for Labour leadership
Shadow business secretary pledges in Guardian article to pursue ‘progressive patriotism’We can take the Labour party back into power. Here’s howRebecca Long-Bailey has made her opening pitch for the Labour leadership, avoiding any direct criticism of Jeremy Corbyn but implicitly offering an alternative approach by promising to champion “progressive patriotism”.In her first substantive comments on the election result, the party’s worst in terms of seats won since 1935, the shadow business secretary uses an article for the Guardian to say Labour’s “compromise solution” on Brexit was partly to blame, but that trust was also an issue. Continue reading...
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