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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The Sunday Times has obtained Labour's secret list of target seats for the election

It reveals Murphy and Milne fought "deranged" offensive campaign focused on Tory Leave seats

Hidden from staff, this version was updated 15th Nov and leaked by a trade union (1/5)

It reveals that despite polls Labour targeted 60 seats and defended just 26

The list includes Tory seats with majorities of more than 5,000 like Stourbridge, Dover and Gloucester

Echoes Murphy's claim that Labour would reject polling. "We ripped up those rules,' she said. (2/5)

Some seats appear to be political - for example Labour continued to target @lucianaberger in Finchley and Golders Green but it did not prioritise @RuthSmeeth in Stoke on Trent North

Ditto with several Corbynsceptics as resources were marshalled elsewhere 3/5

Source says campaign was based on three motives:

- disprove defensive approach of 2017
- show that Lab support concentrated in non-Remain areas
- internal politics, change complexion of PLP

"Unite are behind this," they say (4/5)

They say that Labour was warned but kept this document as their central strategy and refused to develop a new plan

"Murphy and Milne are responsible for the most catastrophic defeat in almost a century. They must go."

More by @cazjwheeler @TomCalver2 and I in tomorrow's ST