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But staff in Labour HQ are worried about entryism, in which supporters of other parties could be joining specifically to sway the leadership election. The Guardian has been shown research by Labour party staff that elaborates on these concerns.
It highlights examples of parties on the far-left encouraging people to join Labour to back Corbyn. It includes a report to the Communist party’s executive committee saying: “Defending the socialist leadership of the Labour party at all costs” should be a priority; a blog post on the Alliance for Workers Liberty website urging people to “flood into the Labour party”; pro-Corbyn campaign material available for downloading from the Socialist Workers’ party website and pro-Corbyn statements from the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
The paper also documents 10 examples of people who have boasted on Twitter about joining Labour to vote for Corbyn while also being members or backers of other parties such as the Greens. These cases are being investigated by Labour’s compliance unit.
A Labour source said: “There is a real problem of entryism. Party HQ has the will to deal with this but not the resources. And the leadership does not have the will.”
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