Labour deputy leader election candidates: Who are the candidates standing?
A total of six Labour MPs so far have declared their intention to run.
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Andy Burnham says next deputy leader of Labour Party must be someone who can ‘root themselves in the mainstream, the heartbeat of the party’
“We need to listen to our MPs more, respect them more and I hope this deputy leadership contest will open up a debate about that whole approach to running the PLP and the Labour Party.”
Keir Starmer pledges there will be ‘no rowing back’ on the Employment Rights Bill
The Prime Minister’s official spokesperson also said: “We are absolutely backing the Employment Rights Bill.”
Bridget Phillipson becomes first cabinet minister to announce bid for Labour deputy leadership
‘I’ve taken on powerful vested interests in the education sector – and even as they threw everything at me, I have never taken a backwards step. I will bring that same determination to every battle ahead of us.’
The early runners and riders for Labour’s Deputy Leader
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.
Labour insiders set up new centre-left group backed by Andy Burnham to change party’s direction
The aim of Mainstream, the group says is to ‘develop and champion a popular left alternative’.
‘A proud trade unionist and a tireless advocate for working people’: Tributes paid to Angela Rayner after resignation
‘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.’
Britons want a second Labour term under Starmer than have Farage in No. 10, poll shows
Progressives must continue to expose Farage for what he really stands for, a far-right populist, who wants to privatise the NHS, and is comfortable praising the likes of war criminal Vladimir Putin.
Labour slams newly elected Green Party leader for claiming women could increase bra sizes with minds
“This is the person who the Greens just elected as their new leader”
Labour Must Shut Down the HMO Scandal
We cannot afford to let our own working class families be thrown out of their homes to make way for asylum HMOs.