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Don't let Labour's leadership snuff out its socialist left
The policies of the 2017 manifesto were a hit with a people who want change, says LAURA SMITH – we mustn't fall for myth-making about why we lost in 2019
A 2019 election rally

BACK in 2017, an election was called by Theresa May, specifically with the intention of obliterating the Labour Party when it was supposedly at its weakest.

Instead the party led by Jeremy Corbyn achieved the party’s greatest swing in the vote since 1945 — a huge achievement especially with an internal war exploding inside the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Seats were won that weren’t thought possible, including mine in Crewe and Nantwich, and we deprived Theresa May of her majority.

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