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Jeremy Corbyn's backers are launching a fight back in areas targeted by UKIP.

The Labour leader’s supporters are arranging a series of rallies in towns and cities under the banner “Take Back Control”.

The slogan seeks to repeat the success of Vote Leave in the Brexit referendum - and spike UKIP’s guns in Labour heartlands.

Mr Corbyn has repeatedly highlighted the popularity of his rallies during his two victorious leadership campaigns in 2015 and 2016.

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Donald Trump held mass rallies during last year’s bitter White House battle.

Activists are organising the events through The World Transformed, which grew from the pro-Corbyn Momentum group.

Speakers are set to include key allies of the party boss like Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Diane Abbott, and former frontbenchers Clive Lewis and Rachael Maskell, who quit the Shadow Cabinet so they could vote against triggering Article 50 last week.

The first rally takes place in Sunderland on April 1, followed by events in Croydon on April 8, Hackney, east London on April 22, Bradford on May 6, Plymouth on May 13 and Hastings on May 27.

Ms Maskell said: “The overriding cry from the EU Referendum was that people wanted more control over the lives they lead and those who represent them in our political institutions.

“When you don’t know how many hours you will work on your zero-hour contract, or when your landlord will tell you to pack your bags, it is increasingly impossible to have control over anything.

“The Government, in refusing to listen to the needs people have, highlights the need for people across every community to get their voice heard and make their politicians work for them.

“The debate should not be about the political institutions but the way those who hold office engage and respond and, most importantly, empower people in their community to have a voice.”

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Take Back Control organiser Charlie Clarke said: “Since the referendum the establishment have pedalled the idea that every Remain voter is part of a croissant-munching, metropolitan elite while every Leave voter is racist, xenophobic and backwards.

“These stereotypes are divisive, poisonous and flat out untrue.

“Instead of letting our vote define us and divide us, we have to recognise the large amount of common ground the majority of people in this country share - worries about housing, pay and the loss of community, aspirations for a future better than that of our parents, the sense that our lives are always at the whim of somebody else.

“The Brexit negotiations mean a radically altered future for Britain, they mean a time of instability and change.

“Now is when the future will be born, now is the moment we must fight for something better.”