54 m. ago Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson surges into pole position in Labour deputy leader race after she woos unions by vowing workers' rights overhaul WON'T be watered down

The Education Secretary, an ally of Sir Keir Starmer, has so far secured the backing of 44 Labour MPs in the battle to become the party's number two.

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3 h. ago Bridget Phillipson emerges as frontrunner for Labour’s deputy leader as six candidates join race

Labour figures are battling to get nominations from 80 MPs by Thursday – or they face being out of the contest to replace Angela Rayner

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3 h. ago Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson woos unions in Labour deputy leader battle vowing workers' rights overhaul WON'T be watered down

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson confirmed she is running to replace Angela Rayner and 'unite our great party'.

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4 h. ago Bridget Phillipson emerges as frontrunner for Labour’s deputy leader as five candidates join race

Labour figures battling to get nominations from 80 MPs by Thursday - or face being out of the contest to replace Angela Rayner

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7 h. ago Battle for Labour deputy job ramps up: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson faces sacked minister Lucy Powell

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson confirmed she is running to replace Angela Rayner and 'unite our great party'.

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11 h. ago It's proxy war! Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson enters Labour deputy leader battle... setting up potential clash with Andy Burnham ally Lucy Powell

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson confirmed she is running to replace Angela Rayner and 'unite our great party'.

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33 h. ago Rayner exit triggers battle for Labour's soul: PM accused of 'fixing' deputy leader contest by giving hopefuls just THREE DAYS to get 80 nominations from MPs as Left gears up for revolt

Labour's ruling NEC is meeting today to thrash out the process for deciding a successor to Angela Rayner.

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48 h. ago Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes

Prime minister faces criticism from Emily Thornberry, who highlights risk of ‘handing country to Farage’Keir Starmer has been warned by senior Labour figures to stop making mistakes, before a battle over the party’s deputy leadership and amid fears the government could row back on workers’ rights.As candidates began to jostle to replace Angela Rayner, the prime minister faced public criticism from Emily Thornberry, a potential contender, who said further mistakes from Starmer could lead to having to “hand our country to [Nigel] Farage”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Angela Rayner quits after sleaze probe into stamp duty tax row in blow to Starmer

Angela Rayner has lost her job as Deputy Prime Minister after a tax evasion row boiled over this week, and despite Keir Starmer backing her yesterday, she has now gone

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5 d. ago Operation Save Ange: Labour battles to save Rayner's career by claiming her critics are 'classist'... after she admitted not paying enough stamp duty on her second home

Cabinet colleagues of the Deputy Prime Minister suggested she was being unfairly treated for being a successful, working-class Northerner after she admitted underpaying stamp duty by £40,000.

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5 d. ago Reeves has ‘full confidence’ in Rayner, and thinks deputy PM can keep her job – UK politics live

Chancellor offers unequivocal backing to colleague following stamp duty errorRachel Reeves, the chancellor, was also asked in her Sky News interview if the Rayner controversy showed that the stamp duty regime was “way too complicated”. Reeves sidestepped the question, saying:Well, look, Angela tried to do the right thing, and of course it is incumbent on all of us to try to properly understand the rules, and she is now working to make sure that the correct tax is paid.Well, the definitive advice came in on Wednesday morning, and that’s when Angela put out the statement.On Tuesday as well some court injunctions were lifted related to her disabled son and those circumstances, and that’s why Angela was able to make a full statement on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Angela Rayner makes housing vow as crack team smash obstacles to 100,000 new homes

Construction of around 36,000 homes has been sped up in the last year, while plans for 63,000 homes have been pushed through as Labour battles to hit massive housing target

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2 w. ago ‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?• Read an exclusive extract from Nick Clegg’s new book hereThe rain is just starting to fall from a grey London sky as Sir Nick Clegg arrives, duckingthrough the traffic and carrying what looks like his laundry. C lean shirts for the photoshoot, he says, before apologetically wondering if he might possibly get a coffee. Within minutes he has further apologised for wanting to swap the leather club chair he is offered for a hard plastic one; and then, in horror, for any impression inadvertently given that my questions might send him to sleep.Impeccable English manners should never be mistaken for diffidence – at 58, Clegg remains the only British political figure who could convincingly be played by the equally posh but self-effacing Colin Firth, whose old London home Clegg recently bought – but t...

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2 w. ago Reform serving 'plate of chaos' to voters as deputy council leader, 22, sacked three months into job

Joeseph Boam, 22, was removed from his role after a clash with the Reform leader of Leicestershire County Council

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last month Scotland's Deputy Minister Kate Forbes reveals she will quit politics because she isn't 'doing a terribly good job' at motherhood as MSP says she can't fulfil parenting duties in the job

Kate Forbes , Scotland's Deputy First Minister, has opened up about wanting more children after announcing last week that she will be leaving politics in 2026.

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