Leadership announcement

Don’t forget to keep up with the action on twitter (follow@labourlistand@markfergusonukfor all of the news from inside the conference centre).

There will NOT be a livechat of today’s announcement. Apologies for any confusion.

Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.

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