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The early runners and riders for Labour’s Deputy Leader

Basit Mahmood
8 September, 2025

Candidates would then need to seek local party and union/affiliate nominations between Sept. 13-27 followed by a ballot of members from Oct. 8-23. That is the timetable being put before the NEC.

Paul Nowak speaking at TUC Congress
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Keir Starmer must ‘show working people whose side’ he is on, TUC general secretary says

Chris Jarvis
8 September, 2025

Paul Nowak called for the government to scrap the two child benefit cap

Andy Burnham
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Labour insiders set up new centre-left group backed by Andy Burnham to change party’s direction

Basit Mahmood
8 September, 2025

The aim of Mainstream, the group says is to ‘develop and champion a popular left alternative’.

Sian Berry speaking at the Workers' Planet event
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Government is ‘one of the worst versions of the Labour Party we could possibly imagine’, Sian Berry tells trade unionists

Chris Jarvis
7 September, 2025

She didn’t pull her punches

Student protesters
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TUC votes to campaign for a national education service and the abolition of tuition fees

Chris Jarvis
7 September, 2025

Trade unionists have backed a national education service ‘free at the point of use from cradle to grave’

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Women unite against far-right rhetoric linking immigration to sexual violence

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 September, 2025

The open letter condemns the far right’s “racist lies” under the guise of protecting women and girls.

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current no longer low-likelihood – but where’s the media interest?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 September, 2025

“Why isn’t this headline news? The implications are horrifying …”

Reform's Sarah Pochin on ITV Granada Reports
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Reform MP Sarah Pochin puts her foot in it (again) with comments about female police officers

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
6 September, 2025

The comments provoked backlash, including from former Merseyside police chief constable Serena Kennedy.

Angela Rayner
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‘A proud trade unionist and a tireless advocate for working people’: Tributes paid to Angela Rayner after resignation

Basit Mahmood
5 September, 2025

‘Angela Rayner has achieved more in the last year than most politicians achieve in a lifetime – a trailblazer for working class kids from backgrounds like ours.’

Nigel Farage making his speech at Reform Party conference 2025
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Breaking: Nigel Farage has said Reform would make ‘serious cuts’ to the UK’s welfare budget

5 September, 2025

Farage claims to be ‘for British people’, but has already said he would cut the welfare system if Reform wins the next election

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