If there is one message to take from this election, it is that organising in communities is the future of Labour’s campaigning.
When elected, Jeremy Corbyn’s promise of a Labour social movement was characterised by critics as “putting rallies above winning elections”. But the electoral utility of a mobilised mass membership is now clearly visible. The accepted difference a good ground campaign can make is somewhere between three and six per cent. This is well within the margin of many of Labour’s election gains.
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