Labour to ban leftwing groups including Alliance for Workers’ Liberty

Two other organisations to be proscribed are the Labour Left Alliance and the Socialist Labour Network

Labour is to proscribe three leftwing groups including the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, a movement connected to a number of current and former MPs that also has links with pro-European campaigns.

Sources on the party's national executive committee said it was right to ban Labour members from being members of the AWL, describing it as an entryist group that was banned until very recently" which had historically stood candidates against Labour.