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6 June 2015updated 12 Oct 2023 10:41am

Labour’s next split: the referendum

Labour may soon find itself just as riven by Europe as the Conservative Party.

By Stephen Bush

Chuka Umunna has called on Labour to be part of a “broad, grassroots campaign” to keep Britain in the European Union, warning that a narrow campaign would see the party and the In campaign cast as “a cosy club of established political parties and big businessess”.

The remarks come after Alistair Darling, the former Labour Chancellor and head of Better Together, the cross-party campaign to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom, slapped down Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the cross-party campaign for the Union was responsible for Scottish Labour’s travails. 

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