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A real plan to revitalise held-back communities is what’s needed, not ‘levelling-up’ platitudes
Without a radical redistribution of power, resources and funding across the country, real change will not be possible, write IAN LAVERY, LAURA SMITH and JON TRICKETT of No Holding Back

IT IS approaching a year since we released our publication The Challenge for Labour, laying out our vision for how Labour must rebuild going forward in the midst of the most recent election, and our exit from the EU and the aftermath of the pandemic loomed over us.
The overarching theme of the paper was to explore the reasons why in many places across the country the Labour Party was no longer seen as the natural home of so many working communities.
We listened to thousands of grassroots activists for their views on how this fractured relationship with the old Labour heartlands could be mended.
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