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Richard Angell is a former trade union official for Community Union and worked for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Combatting [[Antisemitism]]. He served on Labour’s National Policy Forum (2010-15), as secretary of LGBT Labour (2008-11) and chair of Young Labour (2007-2009).<ref>''[http://www.progressonline.org.uk/about-progress/the-progress-team/ "The Progress Team, Richard Angell – Director"]''</ref> | Richard Angell is a former trade union official for Community Union and worked for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Combatting [[Antisemitism]]. He served on Labour’s National Policy Forum (2010-15), as secretary of LGBT Labour (2008-11) and chair of Young Labour (2007-2009).<ref>''[http://www.progressonline.org.uk/about-progress/the-progress-team/ "The Progress Team, Richard Angell – Director"]''</ref> | ||
| − | In an ''opinion piece'' in ''[[The Guardian]]'' of 26 September 2017, Angell demanded to know what Labour's position is on [[Brexit]], saying "It's time [[Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn]] told us".<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/26/labour-brexit-corbyn-momentum-eurosceptic-bennite "What is Labour’s position on Brexit? It’s time Corbyn told us"]''</ref> | + | In an ''opinion piece'' in ''[[The Guardian]]'' of 26 September 2017, Richard Angell demanded to know what Labour's position is on [[Brexit]], saying "It's time [[Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn]] told us".<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/26/labour-brexit-corbyn-momentum-eurosceptic-bennite "What is Labour’s position on Brexit? It’s time Corbyn told us"]''</ref> |
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| + | Three months earlier, Angell told ''The Independent'': | ||
| + | :“We’re losing a £260,000 a year grant. If we don’t replace it there is a scenario in which Progress could close, that’s a real possibility."<ref>''[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/centrist-labour-think-tank-progress-close-180000-funding-shortfall-gap-richard-angell-jeremy-corbyn-a7813066.html "Centrist Labour think tank Progress could close because of £180,000 funding shortfall"]''</ref> | ||
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Richard Angell is Director of the right wing Labour Party movement Progress. He is the founder of Labour’s three seats challenge (#Lab3seats) and has run marginal seat campaigns for the UK Labour party, and its sister party, Australian Labor. He is elected to the TUC’s LGBT committee.
Richard Angell is a former trade union official for Community Union and worked for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Combatting Antisemitism. He served on Labour’s National Policy Forum (2010-15), as secretary of LGBT Labour (2008-11) and chair of Young Labour (2007-2009).[1]
In an opinion piece in The Guardian of 26 September 2017, Richard Angell demanded to know what Labour's position is on Brexit, saying "It's time Corbyn told us".[2]
Three months earlier, Angell told The Independent:
- “We’re losing a £260,000 a year grant. If we don’t replace it there is a scenario in which Progress could close, that’s a real possibility."[3]
