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Get out there for a summer of campaigning, Corbyn tells activists at Arise

JEREMY CORBYN called on Labour members and trade unionists to launch a summer of campaigning at the weekend’s Arise festival in London.

Mr Corbyn told the final rally at Conway Hall that a mass mobilisation of ordinary people was the only way to change Britain for the better.

Advising members not to be disheartened by media attacks, he said: “Think of the history of our movement. Think what people went through to found trade unions, to win the right to vote, the right for women to vote.

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