Defeated Labour MPs call for 'fundamental change' at top of the party
Jeremy Corbyn and his adviser Seumas Milne both remain in their jobs following Labour's election defeat
, the group said"cronyism" in the party and Labour's"unwillingness" to stand up to anti-Semitism were repeatedly raised as issues on the doorstep. A review launched by Labour Together - a network of activists and figures in the party that includes former leader Ed Miliband - will view attempts to pin the blame on a single cause, such as Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, as simplistic and wrong.
"We were rejected on doorsteps not just because of our woolly, changing position on Brexit, or in Scotland because of our weak commitment to the union, but because the very people we were supposed to be fighting for did not think the policies in our manifesto related to their lives.
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