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Re my earlier tweet that Labour’s consultation ahead of next week’s emergency NEC meeting is pushing party towards adopting confirmatory referendum as foundation of manifesto, please see attached EU election pamphlets, designed by the leader’s office - which show quite how...
far @jeremycorbyn has to travel before he will become a cheerleader for a referendum. By the way, Labour has asked me to make clear the leaflets were designed by HQ in Southside not the leader’s office - which is in some way’s a statement of the obvious (the leader’s office...
does not have a design capability) and is in some ways a nice distinction.
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