Labour MPs attack party rule changes curbing links with anti-monarchy group

Former frontbencher says he has ‘serious misgivings’ about move to prevent constituency parties affiliating with Republic

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Labour MPs have spoken out in the run-up to the coronation against party rule changes that prevent constituency branches from affiliating with an anti-monarchy group.

Republic, a pressure group which campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy, was named on a list of 12 organisations sent in February by a party official and seen by the Guardian.