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Eventually he took up politics, volunteering to leaflet for the Labour party before standing in the 2017 general election as the party's candidate for Guildford.

Senior minister Pat McFadden said "we have to win the fight for Britain's future" while speaking at the Parliamentary Labour Party's first gathering since the local elections, party sources said.

He said: "That's 250 jobs in my constituency gone in the blink of an eye and do you know who they blame, Mr Speaker? They blame the policies of the Labour Party."

"Labour cannot afford to lose the Red Wall again as it reopens the route to a future of opposition and an existential crisis. Without Red Wall constituencies we are not the Labour Party," they said.

"The Labour Party has, this time in a big, big way, betrayed working Britain."