Labour have been in denial about threats from UKIP. Those threats are real, are not going away and must be faced and tackled. That’s the message from a new report from Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley Central.
Dan was commissioned by Andy Burnham to report on how we win back the voters we’ve lost to UKIP. He has now published his report – Reconnecting Labour.
It does not make comfortable reading. But it reinforces many of the messages we’ve already received from Ashcroft’s analyses, and from the TUC’s work on the May election result.
You can read the full report here
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ab/pages/477/attachments/original/1440871372/Reconnecting_Labour-1.pdf?1440871372
As the executive summary states
“We have lost our connection with millions of people. The onus is now on us to show tat we are listening, learning the lessons of defeat and that we are willing to act on them if we are to win back their…
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