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23 April 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 2:21am

Is Compass about to call for tactical voting on the liberal left?

The search for a new, non-tribal politics continues.

By Mehdi Hasan

The influential left-wing pressure group Compass — launched in 2003, chaired by Neal Lawson and fronted by Labour’s Jon Cruddas — has sent out an email tonight to its 4,000 members asking them whether or not the organisation should devise a short statement in support of tactical voting to help stop the Tories from winning the general election.

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