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European Elections meltdown

6th June 2009

In the Euro-elections tonight Labour is experiencing catastrophically bad results with its lowest share of the vote in a nationwide election since 1910, when the Party was only four years old. In 2004 Labour topped the poll in Wales and in Yorkshire & the Humber but now these Labour heartlands are falling to the Tories. It is clear that Labour is going to poll substantially below 20% and will probably finish 3rd or even 4th overall

John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, said:

“If Labour MPs and Gordon Brown don’t get the message from these results we are finished. The message is clear we need a complete change of political direction.”

“New Labour is being eliminated at the ballot box. People are telling us that they want the Labour Party to become a people’s party again. Only then will we regain the voters’ trust”.

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