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By Aran Dhillon, Local Democracy Reporter Labour insists it’s ‘proud of country’ following leaked messages WARRINGTON Labour insists it is ‘proud of our country’ after controversial messages were leaked. As reported by the Daily Mail, the leaked messages from the Labour WhatsApp group were posted in response to a debate about flying the Union flag. Former Warrington South MP Faisal Rashid – who is standing as a candidate in the all-out elections in May – started the conversation by posting a screenshot from I...

Yesterday Sir Keir Starmer chalked up a year since becoming leader of the Labour Party. It must seem longer to him — and not just because time appears to pass so slowly during the interminable lockdowns. For he has struggled unavailingly with a party membership still madly missing Jeremy Corbyn — whose evident distaste for his own country's history aroused a reciprocal contempt in Labour's former heartlands in the North. A recent strategy document Starmer commissioned, leaked to The Guardian, advised Labour to 'make use of the [Union] flag' in order to win back such support — which only...