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‘Inside the grassroots network training Labour’s next generation’

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By Tom Belger Verified
| LabourList
There’s no shortage of Labour WhatsApp groups in Westminster, from the party’s many tribes to the class of ‘24. And there’s no shortage of journalists prying about who said what, and who’s in what club. So it’s surprising there’s been little reporting to date on one of Labour’s fastest-growing groups. Its members span the offices of almost half the Parliamentary Labour Party, and it’s all-but-certain to include some of the party’s future leading lights.
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‘Will ‘bellwether’ Stevenage sound an alarm for Labour?’

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By Tom Belger Verified
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The constituency of Stevenage has been a bellwether since its creation in 1983, quietly blazing a trail for national politics as it has for town planning. “Stevenage Woman” was to Keir Starmer what “Mondeo Man” was to Tony Blair – the swing voter critical for victory. Starmerite think tank Labour Together coined the archetype pre-election, describing a “young mother struggling with the cost of living and disengaged by politics”.
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‘General strike 1926: Why it happened, failed and couldn’t happen now’

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By Tom Belger Verified
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It was the biggest demonstration of working-class “selflessness, loyalty, creativity and resolve” that Britain has ever seen. And it all started at the Daily Mail. A century ago this week, the paper’s London workers refused to print an editorial urging the public to resist a threatened general strike, which it dubbed “revolutionary”. A short walk away in Downing Street however, Trades Union Congress negotiators knew nothing of the printers’spontaneous, unofficial walkout.
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