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15 August 2017

How Momentum activists are learning to win over Tory voters

The snap election may be over, but Momentum is already preparing its activists for the next one. 

By Jason Murugesu

In a dimly-lit conference room off Euston Road, littered with assorted packs of crisps and chocolate digestives, Jamie Driscoll, a training coordinator for Momentum asks the assembled group of activists: “What can you do in 10 seconds?”

This, according to Driscoll, is “the time that it would take to sum up a Labour manifesto point, concisely and clearly”. 

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