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Labour MPs must ensure Clive Lewis is on the ballot paper for leader

If the Labour Party is to properly address today's big issues - including climate change, democratic reform, and the Tories' toxic anti-immigrant agenda - then Clive Lewis needs to be in the race for leader.

By Fran Boait
Labour MPs must ensure Clive Lewis is on the ballot paper for leader
Clive Lewis, speaking at an Extinction Rebellion protest in April 2019 | SOPA Images/SIPA USA/PA Images
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In the aftermath of the election result, losing by over 10,000 votes in a target seat, I felt shame and naivety that we ever thought we could win.

Those emotions can easily lead to the wrong conclusions about the future direction of the Labour Party. To a tendency to narrow the debate. To return to electioneering within a first past the post system, with all its triangulation over messaging.

But such narrowing would be a mistake. The challenges facing our politics in the years ahead – economic, political, environmental, international, and cultural – are only going to get more complex.

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