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Labour must rebuild – and the left must lead the way
We must ensure that we never allow an entitled party bureaucracy to overrule democratic decisions with a sneering disdain for those who made them, says IAN LAVERY
Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery and the party's candidate in Walsall North, Gill Ogilvie, on the 2019 election campaign trail

IN DECEMBER the worst fears of many were realised as the Tories were granted a huge mandate from the British people. 

Many factors were cited as having caused the disaster, but the fall of seats that had returned Labour MPs for a century was had been decades in the making. 

Right across our party, but particularly on the left, the heartache of the loss was tough to bear.

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