Alison Seabeck, the Labour MP for Plymouth Moor View and Luke Pollard – who stood for Labour in South West Devon – have pledged their support for Ed Miliband, the Shadow Climate Change Secretary in the Labour leadership campaign.
Ed Miliband will be taking questions from Labour members and non-members at Plymouth Labour’s HQ at 21 Durnford Street, Stonehouse from 6pm on Friday, August 6. The tour of the South West will also include a meeting with supporters in Exeter.
Ed has said: “The challenge for Labour in the South West is to rebuild the trust of those people who we lost at the last election. I want Labour to be the party that not only talks of fairness, decent pay and jobs but delivers it in every part of the country. This means building on the good work of Alison Seabeck and Linda Gilroy in Plymouth and winning back voters in Plymouth.”
Alison said: “I’ve been impressed by Ed’s down to earth style and plain talking. People in Moor View tell me they want Labour to reconnect with ordinary hard-working families and that is what Ed will do – and that’s why I’m backing him.
Luke Pollard, who is part of Ed Miliband’s South West campaign team, said: “Ed’s no-nonsense vision of getting back to Labour’s core values of social justice and equality is already going down well in Plymouth.
“If Labour is to win back Plymouth at a local as well as a national level the party needs a leader who will connect with working people, young and old and offer a positive vision for our country. In Ed Miliband I think we would have a leader who will give our party the focus and direction we need to win.”
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