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Stella Creasy, deputy leadership candidate, has argued that Labour doesn't just need to be pro-business, they need to be "of business." She has said that to do this the party must have "more candidates and activists at all levels [of the…
Caroline Flint will today launch a campaign - entitled #ReachOut - as part of her bid for deputy leader. Flint announced she'd be standing a couple of weeks ago on Radio4 . She has said that the aim of this campaign is to ask Labour Party…
With the number of candidates sin Labour's deputy leadership contest extending to seven over the bank holiday weekend (both Rushanara Ali and John Healey have announced in recent days), the battle to secure 35 nominations from MPs has…
John Healey is joining the race to become Labour's deputy leader, making him the 7th MP to do so. Healey, who was a housing minister under Gordon Brown, made this announcement in an article in the Guardian. He said that he hadn't planned on…
Bethnal Green and Bow MP Rushanara Ali has today announced she will be running to become Labour's next deputy leader. Ali, who has been an MP since 2010, told the BBC's John Pienaar that she already had support within the Parliamentary…
Harriet Harman said she wanted the public to play a crucial role in the leadership election at the start of the week. Now making good on this promise, Labour have announced the details of the first TV hustings for the contest. It will take…
Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw has been using the social networking service Snapchat to campaign in the Labour deputy leadership race. It is thought to be the first example of Snapchat being used in UK political campaigning. Snapchat's user…
Representation - or lack of - is an ever present issue in politics. Labour's leadership contest has been lauded for having more women candidates than men (the party has yet to have a female leader), though a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic…
With Labour's Leader, Deputy Leader, and London mayoral candidate spots to be filled there's a lot of speculation over who might stand for each position. One of the potential candidates for the Deputy Leader role was Rochdale MP Simon…
Angela Eagle today becomes the latest candidate to enter the race for Labour's deputy leadership. She joins Tom Watson, Ben Bradshaw, Caroline Flint and Stella Creasy in the contest to succeed Harriet Harman. Eagle today launched a video to…
Stella Creasy has confirmed she will run in the deputy leadership race this evening. After speaking at the Progress annual conference earlier, she has made her intentions clear on Twitter…
Two more candidates have entered the fray for the job of deputy leader over the last 12 hours. Ben Bradshaw told his local party he would seek the role at their post-election get-together last night, before posting his decision on Twitter…
