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Sat 09 Sep 2008Labour report urges more power for leader
EXTRA POWERS should be given to the Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore and taken away from the party's currently powerful National Executive Committee (NEC), according to a key internal reform report.
A draft report from the party's 21st Century Commission, set up last November, is to be debated by the commission's membership today, and at a further meeting next Saturday.
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