Dysfunctional ‘toxic culture’ led to Labour defeat, major report finds

Exclusive: party has mountain to climb to return to power, says Labour Together review

• Key points from review of Labour defeat
• Ed Miliband: Let’s learn the right lessons

Labour has a “mountain to climb” if it is to get back into power, according to a major review of the 2019 general election defeat, which paints a picture of dysfunctionality, toxicity and drift inside the party’s election-fighting machine.

Negative perceptions of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, doubts about the manifesto and the party’s ambivalent Brexit stance reinforced each other in a “snowballing” effect to deliver December’s catastrophic result, the 150-page report by the party group Labour Together argues.

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