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		</div><p>More than 15,000 people have joined the UK Labour party in the 24 hours since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader, the party said.</p>
<p>General secretary Iain McNicol said membership was “now over 325,000 and rising”</p>
<p>“A warm welcome to the 15,500 who have joined in the last 24 hours,” he wrote on Twitter.</p>
<p>Newly-elected deputy leader Tom Watson said he hoped many of the more than 100,000 who had paid £3 to vote as a “registered supporter” in the campaign would upgrade to full membership.</p>
<p>“I hope they can come with us on the journey to the election in 2020,” he told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show.</p>
<p>“Let’s get these new members involved in campaigning, helping relay our roots in communities, being involved in a digital revolution in the party that allows members to feel that they’re more included in the decisions we make.</p>
<p>“We want them to be part of that and I don’t think anyone is disagreeing with that,” he said – ruling out any move to convert them automatically on grounds of practicality and cost.</p>
<p>Mr MacNicol said yesterday that he looked forward to seeing new supporters “out on the doorsteps, alongside the members who’ve campaigned for years, or even decades”.</p>
<p>“I want every supporter who voted in this election to do more than click a button and part with £3.00. I want you to join our campaigns, create lively, visible Labour Parties in every community.</p>
<p>“We know from the election in May how vital activism is. The disappointment of defeat weighs heavy in all our hearts.”</p>
<p>Labour’s membership also rose significantly in 2010 when Ed Miliband became leader, but slipped back before reforms to the party’s structures such as voting rights.</p>
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