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Moving to ‘bigger picture’ politics, including the politics of climate, will assist Labour in its quest to engage today’s voters, writes ALAN SIMPSON

IT CAN’T come as a surprise that Labour has been thrown into a spin after the bruising it took in the Euro elections.
The politics was deeply confusing and the campaign was the complete antithesis of that of Labour’s 2017 general election.
The legion of Tory hopefuls wanting to succeed Theresa May will absorb media attention for the time being.
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