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IAN LAVERY, Laura Smith and Jon Trickett’s No Holding Back report has made headlines, above all with its demand for Sir Keir Starmer to apologise for the party’s support for a second referendum on Brexit.
And among the thousands who attended the Zoom meetings that fed into the report launched on Thursday were many who “had voted Labour forever and a day, but because they voted Leave, they were castigated, criticised, harassed — accused of being right-wing, even fascist.
“These are the people in our communities who deserve an apology from our party.
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