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Tory job clubs are just ‘desperate electioneering’

TORY chiefs are planning to establish job clubs in an attempt to “embed” the party in communities and improve its toxic public image, the Morning Star can reveal.

Community coffee mornings run by local Conservative Party branches are also being considered as part of a “social action” plan.

The cynical suggestions, which mirror initiatives by left-wing parties such as Syriza in Greece and Spain’s Podemos, were included in the Conservatives’ recently published party review.

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