Simon Fletcher has called on Labour to keep “the promise” of Jeremy Corbyn’s 2015 Labour leadership campaign in an email to all party staff: “an outward-facing mass movement dedicated to an updated, popular and modern vision of Labour’s values”, in what one staffer who recieved the message described as a “veiled” rebuke to the recent direction of the party leadership.
Fletcher was Corbyn’s campaign manager in 2015, but was increasingly marginalised throughout 2016, with the 2016 campaign managed by Momentum and John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor.
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