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9.17am BST
Here are more proposals from Jeremy Corbyn’s digital democracy manifesto. This summary is taken from the news release from Corbyn’s team released overnight.
The Digital Democracy manifesto includes plans for a:
9.03am BST
Jeremy Corbyn is launching a digital democracy manifesto this morning. As my colleague Peter Walker reports, he is going to say that if he gets re-elected as Labour leader, the party will use digital technology to fight “the most visible general election campaign ever”, using techniques inspired by Bernie Sanders’ campaign in the US and roadtested by his own campaign in the UK.
This morning we’re launching our #DigitalDemocracy manifesto. Join us live at https://t.co/FlVc8rb2Ec at 10.45am http://pic.twitter.com/auBjV9Mo3C
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My leadership campaign is leading the way in harnessing the advances of new technology to organise political campaigning like we’ve never seen before.
The creativity of the networked young generation is phenomenal. We have thousands of young volunteers on our campaign taking part in this digital revolution.
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