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Is Jeremy Corbyn preparing to purge moderate Labour MPs?

16 September 2019

9:03 PM

16 September 2019

9:03 PM

Ahead of the looming general election, moderate Labour MPs are understandably upset by an instruction they say the party has given to suspend the selection of new candidates in seats where the serving MP is retiring or has defected.

They’ve been told the reason is to ‘concentrate on the trigger ballot processes’ – or the deselection of usually moderate MPs who have alienated activists.

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