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Harriet Harman has said she would have "definitely" beaten Ed Miliband if she had run in the Labour leadership contest in 2010. The former cabinet minister said she was "nailing" it as interim leader after Gordon Brown stepped down and…
Tony Blair has admitted he was briefly a "Trot" in his student days and lifted the lid on the Granita "deal" with Gordon Brown. Blair said he "toyed with Marxism" while at Oxford University, and once stayed up all night to read a biography…
Alistair Darling has defended the actions of the last Labour government at the height of the banking crisis and recounted the "scariest moment" when he was told that RBS was on the brink of collapse. The former chancellor, now a peer, said…
These are extracts from Tony Blair's interview on Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News. On "feeling sorry" for Theresa May... TB: “Yes, I do, of course because I know what it’s like to do the job and I think it’s a very unsatisfactory…
The former home secretary Alan Johnson has questioned why Momentum still exists now that Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party is "very safe". Johnson, who served as a minister in both the Blair and Brown governments, has said "I…
Labour's Dan Jarvis has been the MP for Barnsley Central since 2011, when a by-election was triggered after the resignation of the previous MP over the an expenses scandal. The seat has been held by Labour ever since its creation in 1983…
Peter Kyle is up for re-election in the marginal Hove and Portslade constituency he took off the Tories just two years ago. It is a seat that sometimes decides governments although Kyle took it by 1,236 votes at the last general election…
Cat Smith has probably the hardest task of any of the early backers of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership as she aims to hang on to her marginal seat of Lancaster and Fleetwood. Smith had a majority of 1,265 in 2015 and, with just two years to…
Ian Murray has been MP for Edinburgh South since 2010 and came through the near-wipe-out of Labour MPs in Scotland in 2015 to tell the tale. Ranked Scotland's most responsive and accessible member of parliament by charity MySociety, he has…
Mary Creagh is fighting to keep her Brexit-backing seat in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, having been MP there for 12 years. She had a 2,613 vote majority in 2015, but this perhaps doesn't fully tell the story of how tricky the campaign is in…
Labour's Preet Gill has the job of defending Edgbaston, which Gisela Stuart has held since 1997, though her majority was just 2,706 two years ago. Stuart, one of few Labour Brexiteers, has decided to retire, and the seat narrowly backed…
In the Derby North seat which Chris Williamson held from 2010 to 2015, the fiercely pro-Corbyn candidate has a fight on his hands. Having lost by just 41 votes two years ago, it is one of the most marginal Labour targets in Britain. Seen by…
