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Guardian Plumbs the Depths

29th October 2015

Guardian Plumbs the Depths

Yesterday Patrick Wintour launched an attack on Andrew Fisher and the LRC in the Guardian. It was entitled “Corbyn adviser backed non-Labour candidates at least three times”.

It is a completely shoddy piece, containing outright untruths about Andrew and the LRC. For instance:

Fisher sent a “personal statement” as secretary to the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) to the Left Unity Liaison Committee asking them to support socialist Green candidates and Socialist Labour candidates. NOT TRUE

In 2008, Fisher was reported as attending a Left Unity meeting as a member of the LRC, where he was reported as saying “a growing number of members believed that Labour was now dead”.
NOT TRUE

It is no secret that Fisher was active in the LRC or that the LRC frequently examined the case for new political formations that might lead to a rival to the Labour party.
NOT TRUE

These allegations contained in an article from Patrick Wintour in the Guardian are untrue. The LRC has never supported candidates against Labour and it is against the founding principles of the LRC to do so.

Background

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