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Alarm over loss of votes in Scotland and polling concerns prompt pledge to allow frontbenchers to ‘speak more freely’
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Labour leader forced to discount suggestions that mutinous backbenchers were organising to ask him to stand down
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Former home secretary tells party: ‘When standing on a cliff, it is unwise to believe that by jumping you will learn to fly’
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Chair of parliamentary Labour party is asked to pass backbencher complaints about poor performance directly to leader
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Lucy Powell given day-to-day responsibility for campaigning after shakeup prompted by Jim Murphy’s departure
Labour is doomed if its leadership can’t convey the message