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Fighting for every vote means fighting on all key fronts
In terms of election strategy and tactics, building the widest possible coalition of interests, rather than single-issue politics, is the way to cut through to voters, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Diane Abbott

THE local elections in May are very important. The outcome can affect tens of millions of people in important aspects of their lives. 

They are also an opportunity to send a strong message of rejection to this rotten government. We need the strongest possible vote for Labour, and I would urge everyone who can to go out campaigning too.

But if reports are to be believed, a rather strange debate has opened up within the highest ranks of the Parliamentary Labour Party about strategy in this and other elections. 

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