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Jeremy Corbyn will be handed a report outlining exactly where voters believe Labour is getting it wrong, we can reveal.

A former Labour minister plans a New Year tour of Britain to uncover why the party is failing to win over voters.

Vernon Coaker will visit communities across the country before presenting the Labour leader with evidence to come up with policies that could win the 2020 election.

“I want it to be more than just a listening exercise where I go out there, listen to people and nothing happens,” he said.

“I will certainly be giving it to people saying, ‘This is what I’ve done, this is what we could learn, this is what people are telling me’ - and then work within the party to use that evidence to try and change policy.

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“I hope Jeremy will take it on board.”

Ex-history teacher Mr Coaker decided to launch the mission, which he stressed was in its early stages, after leading Labour’s campaign in this month’s disastrous Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election.

The party slumped to fourth, triggering fresh fears over Labour’s direction under Mr Corbyn.

Labour trails the Tories by 11 points in latest UK-wide polls and new UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has vowed to target its traditional heartlands in the North and Midlands.

Mr Coaker, 63, will make Sleaford his first stop on his quest to discover how Labour’s slide can be reversed.

He said: “I want to go and talk to people about the Labour Party, what they feel about the Labour Party, what they think the issues are, what concerns aren’t we addressing and what things are relevant.

“We need to start asking ourselves tough questions.”

Critics regularly accuse Mr Corbyn of being too focused on London.

Four of his top Shadow Cabinet team represent seats in the capital.

“Certainly there is a perception that people feel there is a sense in which things are dominated by London,” warned Mr Coaker, who first became an MP in Labour’s 1997 landslide.

“We can’t retreat to ever smaller parts of the country, focused on one or two big cities and London.

“We have to rebuild that broad coalition - and this is a challenge for the whole party and the whole movement - between various interests, particularly the traditional working class base and the middle class.”

He also plans to visit Tory strongholds in well-off areas such as the Home Counties.

“It’s about rebuilding - what is it that we are going to say for people across the country?” said Mr Coaker, who was a minister in the Home Office and Department for Children, Schools and Families.

“The economic and cultural change in the country is enormous and we’ve got to respond to that.”

The Mirror revealed last week how Labour’s Welsh leader Carwyn Jones urged Mr Corbyn to find a plain-speaking “John Prescott figure” to appeal to Labour’s traditional voters .

MP Angela Eagle, who challenged Mr Corbyn’s leadership this summer, admitted it had been “a bad year” for the party.

“We will be glad when this year’s over, let’s put it that way,” she told the BBC.

“We have to hope that we can begin to remake our appeal to the electorate. It’s no good denying that we’ve had a bad year.”