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LABOUR MPs would be handed the same power as 1,500 grassroots members in any future leadership election under plans proposed by a right-wing faction.
Labour First wants to abandon the one member, one-vote system under which Jeremy Corbyn won a landslide victory last summer.
It also wants to scrap the registered and affiliated supporter scheme which saw thousands of people who support the party but are not members pay £3 to vote in the leadership election.
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