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Labour's EU muddle 'risks widening gap between party and its base,' activists hear
John Haylett reports from Merthyr Tydfil

LABOUR’S position on the EU risks a gap opening up between the party and the traditional labour movement, the director of a black and minority ethnic (BME) charity said at Merthyr Rising.

Voice4Change director Kunle Olulode told the Is Lexit Possible? meeting that he grew up in a family of Nigerian origin “steeped in Labour history.”

He also said that he remembered the 1975 EEC referendum, which demoted Britain’s relationship with the Commonwealth.

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