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10 June 2016

To save Britain’s EU membership, the party is rallying around John McDonnell

The shadow chancellor's Tory Brexit line has been picked up by some unusual allies. 

By Stephen Bush

Britain’s In-Out referendum will won and lost among Labour voters. That’s why Vote Leave are going hard on their illusory pile of money for the NHS, a powerful message for the nine million voters who backed Ed Miliband in 2015.

As I’ve written before, John McDonnell has a catchphrase that he and his team believe will provide the missing incentive that Labour voters need to get them to the polls on 23 June: “Tory Brexit”.

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