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LABOUR is to create a new social media code of conduct amid anger over damaging internal attacks on leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The decision was made at a meeting of the party’s national executive on Saturday, according to a report on the Labour Grassroots blog.

Left-wing NEC member Pete Willsman wrote: “Several NEC members raised the issue of the very harmful leaks to the media and the very damaging way in which social media is being used.

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