52 h. ago Neil Kinnock endorses Lucy Powell ahead of crunch Labour deputy leader vote

Lord Kinnock threw his weight behind 'outstanding' Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell, saying she would ensure the whole Labour movement was heard if she became deputy leader

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6 d. ago 'It's like being at Glastonbury and I've just not been at the Pyramid stage'

Manchester MP Lucy Powell, a close friend of Andy Burnham, is standing to be deputy leader of the Labour Party

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1 week ago Truth about 'next deputy Labour leader' Bridget Phillipson's poverty

In the battle to become Labour 's deputy leader, Bridget Phillipson has spoken more than once of her working class roots - growing up on 'a tough street of council houses'.

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1 week ago Labour must get on front foot against Farage's 'extreme' views says Bridget Phillipson

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who is running to deputy Labour leader, says the party must be more assertive over Nigel Farage's 'dangerous and divisive' messages

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1 week ago Fire Brigades Union back Lucy Powell to be Labour's new deputy leader

'The leadership must change direction'

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1 week ago Farage endangering women by failing to condemn paracetamol claims, says Bridget Phillipson

Labour deputy leader candidate criticises ‘scaremongering’ on autism and says party must be firmer in tackling ReformUK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage is “endangering women’s health” by failing to condemn Donald Trump’s claims that using paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism, Bridget Phillipson has said.The education secretary and minister for women said she had used the painkiller throughout her second pregnancy, and she warned that Reform’s connections with medical conspiracy theories including anti-vaccine rhetoric made the party a danger to public health. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Unite decides not to endorse either candidate for Labour deputy leader

Unison and the GMB union earlier announced they were supporting Bridget Phillipson for the post.

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1 week ago Unison and GMB unions back Bridget Phillipson to become Labour deputy leader

The Education Secretary said her campaign ‘is getting support from every part of our movement’.

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1 week ago GMB union backs Bridget Phillipson to become Labour deputy leader

The Education Secretary said it was ‘humbling’ to receive the nomination of her own trade union.

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1 week ago Bridget Phillipson believes she is victim of sexist briefings

The Education Secretary said there is an ‘irony’ to reports which suggest she is Downing Street’s preferred candidate for Labour’s deputy leader.

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1 week ago Not updating Labour deputy leader CLP nomination list branded 'suspicious'

The party last updated the list on its website on Friday - at which point Bridget Phillipson had 31 Constituency Labour Party (CLP) nominations, with Lucy Powell one behind.

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1 week ago Keir Starmer 'sleepwalking to Reform government' slam Stockport councillors as they quit Labour

Stockport Labour group are in the process of choosing a new deputy leader.

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1 week ago John Swinney has 'let down' working class kids 'time and again', claims Labour's Bridget Phillipson

EXCLUSIVE: Bridget Phillipson, who is standing to become Labour's next deputy leader, admitted "we haven't done everything right in our first year in Government".

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2 w. ago Labour deputy leader contender warns party faces 'big threat' from left wing and Reform in London

Lucy Powell said that while campaigning in Lewisham she spoke to ‘a lot of traditional Labour voters who are frustrated’ with how the Government has acted since coming to power last July

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2 w. ago Lucy Powell secures enough nominations to make it onto Labour deputy leader ballot

Members will choose between the Manchester Central MP and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.

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2 w. ago Who should be Labour’s deputy leader? Whoever can tell a good Labour story – and take the fight to Reform | Polly Toynbee

The political differences between Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell are slight. What the party needs is someone able to unite and persuadeYou might think the last thing Labour needs now is this deputy leadership contest, the unavoidable fallout from Angela Rayner’s sad plunge from grace. But these two combatants, Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell, may ignite exactly the rethinking Labour needs. Like it or not, whoever the contestants were, this would be framed as establishment v insurgent, or as proxies for Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham. It’s for Phillipson and Powell to strike out and show they are their own people. In truth, Phillipson is not very establishment and Powell not very insurgent.Any party would be in a state of ferment after falling further than any previous government in its it first 14 months, with inflation stubbornly high and growth flatlining. It reels from the shock of scoring 20% in opinion polls while Nigel Farage’s Reform UK rides high on 31%.Polly Toynbee i...

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2 w. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Lucy Powell is favourite to be Starmer's deputy... a woman known as the Egg Breaker who says she's more alpha male than most men

At a swish drinks party hosted by Ed Miliband in his imposing north London townhouse recently, the main topic of conversation was who would succeed Angela Rayner as Labour's deputy leader.

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2 w. ago Starmer reaches another new low: Record numbers disapprove of PM as rivals attack 'unforced errors' and MPs tell him to go

Lucy Powell, sacked by the PM in a panicky reshuffle less than a fortnight ago, warned in an interview that the public does not feel government is 'on their side'.

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2 w. ago Starmer pummelled by his own party: Labour deputy leader frontrunner Lucy Powell launches brutal attack on PM's 'unforced errors' as MPs tell him to go

Lucy Powell, sacked by the PM in a panicky reshuffle less than a fortnight ago, warned in an interview that the public does not feel government is 'on their side'.

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3 w. ago Bridget Phillipson sets her sights on Labour beating Reform and WINNING the next election as she launches deputy leadership campaign

The Education Secretary kicked off her campaign in her home town of Sunderland seeking to reunify the fractious party after the resignation of Angela Rayner.

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