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Labour leadership: Corbyn supporter gets apology for ban | Labour leadership: Corbyn supporter gets apology for ban |
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A Welsh academic told he was banned from joining Labour and voting in the leadership election has won an apology. | A Welsh academic told he was banned from joining Labour and voting in the leadership election has won an apology. |
Vic Grout, a professor of computing at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, was a Plymouth councillor who quit Labour in the 1990s but decided to rejoin. | |
A Welsh Labour spokesman said: "This was an administrative error." | A Welsh Labour spokesman said: "This was an administrative error." |
Mr Grout, who backs Jeremy Corbyn, said he was happy to accept the explanation of it being a genuine mistake "at face value". | Mr Grout, who backs Jeremy Corbyn, said he was happy to accept the explanation of it being a genuine mistake "at face value". |
He told BBC Radio Wales: "I've never made any pretence or excuse about my politics - I've always been a socialist." | |
On his decision to rejoin the party, Mr Grout said: "I didn't hold out much hope for anything changing in the leadership election this time around until Jeremy Corbyn came on the scene." | |
He added: "This has probably been the kick up the backside that I needed to get involved a bit more than I have been." | |
Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn are all bidding to succeed Ed Miliband. |
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