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Jeremy Corbyn is to set out plans to use the Internet to allow voters a say in running the Government.

The Labour leader will promise to set up online meetings where people can have their say on legislation.

He will also pledge that every home will have high-speed broadband regardless of where they live.

Mr Corbyn says his plans will ‘democratise the internet’ by forcing firms to share software developed with public money and making it easier to people to set up firms online.

He is due to say in a speech in London: “My leadership campaign is leading the way in harnessing the advances of new technology to organise political campaigning like we’ve never seen before.”

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He will add: “The creativity of the networked young generation is phenomenal.

“We have thousands of young volunteers on our campaign taking part in this digital revolution.

“We will channel this new energy and creativity into Labour’s General Election campaign whenever it comes, it’s in this way that Labour can get back into Government.”

His comments came as Ed Balls accused Mr Corbyn of trying to create a “leftist utopian fantasy” which was “devoid of connection to the reality of people’s lives.”

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In extracts from his memoirs, Speaking Out, the former Shadow Chancellor accused the Labour leader failing to listen to the wider electorate.

He wrote: “Refusing to listen to the electorate has never been a winning formula, any more than Jeremy Corbyn thinking the volume of cheering from your core supporters is a reliable guide to wider public opinion.

“Caution will not win the day; but nor will Jeremy Corbyn’s leftist utopian fantasy.”

Mr Balls also hit out at Labour’s “astonishingly dysfunctional” 2015 general election campaign.

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He claimed Ed Miliband “kept me at a distance” in the run-up to polling day and the pair “probably only spoke twice” in the four-week campaign.

“That was astonishingly dysfunctional when I compare it to how Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] worked,” he wrote.

Mr Miliband only rang Mr Balls after he lost his seat and his wife, MP Yvette Cooper, had to persuade him to pick up because his reaction was “what’s the point?”.