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		</div><p>Former Labour leader Ed Miliband will be one of those to head up a major inquest into the party’s disastrous election result.</p>
<p>The review, set up by Labour Together, will include interviewing all 59 MPs who lost their seats during the crumbling of Labour’s so-called “red wall” of constituencies in the North, the Midlands and Wales.</p>
<p>Party leader Jeremy Corbyn only opted to write a generic letter thanking those who were toppled after facing backlash from the Parliamentary Labour Party at a fiery meeting in Westminster last week.</p>
<p>The commissioners behind the independent review said it was “wrong” to blame only the leadership or the position on Brexit for Labour’s heaviest general election loss since 1935.</p>
<p>As well as Mr Miliband, who led the party to its 2015 defeat, former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell and Birmingham Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood will spearhead the review.</p>
<p>Other confirmed commissioners include Jo Platt, former MP for Leigh – one of the lost seats from Labour’s heartlands in Greater Manchester – Sienna Rodgers, editor of Labourlist, a website favourable to the party, and James Meadway, former economic adviser to shadow chancellor John McDonnell.</p>
<p>A trade union representative, as well as a local organiser, is also expected to join the panel.</p>
<p>Ms Powell said the inquiry would take a “real and meaningful look” at why the party had “fallen short” at four consecutive elections.</p>
<p><em>“We have lost the last four elections and we all have to accept that our offers to the country have been insufficient,”</em> said the Manchester Central MP.</p>
<p><em>“We should have taken the time to understand our losses previously. It’s now profoundly important for the future of our Party and country that we take a real and meaningful look at why we have fallen short.</em></p>
<p><em>“This inquiry gives us the opportunity to listen to members, candidates and the public and I hope our whole movement takes it in the spirit it is offered and takes part.”</em></p>
<p>The commission, according to a spokesman, will be made up of voices from “different Labour traditions” and aims to “raise above the factional infighting which has coloured much of Labour politics for the last four years”.</p>
<p>It hopes to capitalise on the “millions of conversations” voters had with Labour campaigners in a bid to come up with a plan for Labour’s return to Downing Street.</p>
<p>The party last won an election in 2005 under the leadership of former prime minister Tony Blair.</p>
<p>The former leader of 13 years gave a scathing speech last week, telling an audience in London that the “takeover of the Labour Party by the far-left” had “turned it into a glorified protest movement, with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government”.</p>
<p>The review commissioners plan to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Take written and oral evidence from all the defeated candidates in former Labour held seats, and those on the party’s target list.</li>
<li>Hold listening events and focus groups with the public in the heartland seats in England, Scotland and Wales where Labour lost.</li>
<li>Analyse available election data.</li>
<li>Speak to organisers, councillors and activists around the country about what went right and wrong.</li>
<li>Conduct a survey of Labour members and activists.</li>
<li>Conclude by “mapping out a route” back to power for Labour.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ms Rodgers, of Labourlist, said the review would pore over the results in “an even-handed way, which doesn’t start with blaming one faction, or individual”.</p>
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