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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
Ian Lavery on election 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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