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Time for Labour to stand unequivocally by the working class
The Ashcroft survey of the EU election has been ignored by all mainstream media. ROB GRIFFITHS looks at its rather surprising findings
DIRECT ACTION: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn canvassing on a council estate in Lambeth, south London

WITHIN hours of the EU parliamentary election results, Labour’s poor performance was being used as yet another stick with which to beat Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters.

His leadership is being blamed for the fall in Labour’s share of the vote in Britain from 25 per cent in 2014 to 14 per cent in 2019. The number of Labour MEPs has dropped from 20 to 10.

His detractors argue that Corbyn’s failure to come out against every form of Brexit and to call for a second EU referendum drove many previous Labour supporters into the arms of the Lib Dems and Greens on May 23.

The Ashcroft survey indicates that — compared with the 2017 general election — significantly higher proportions of working-class and Labour voters abstained on
May 23 than “upper-class”

The politics must be argued in favour of an EU exit which does not shackle
a future left-led Labour government to EU Single Market rule

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