Labour needs to stop focusing on fringe issues if it wants to win back the country
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As party members and activists begin the soul searching that will be crucial to its future, the media spotlight on the Labour leadership election has exposed the gulf between average voters and Labour activists. Labour Party members are not average voters, and leadership candidates need to win over the hearts and minds of its hardcore activists before they have the opportunity to take on the political establishment in Westminster. The Labour Party should learn from the mistakes of the remain campaign, whose descent into political obscurity tells us what happens when political movements patronise voters. If the Labour Party can reorientate itself as the party of British liberal democracy, and dispel the reek of fringe hobbyist movements, it may win again.
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