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Below is the full text of Lisa Nandy's leadership campaign launch speech. I am so pleased to be back here in Dagenham today. This is a place that means so much to me for so many reasons. The home of the Ford Machinists and their landmark…
Lisa Nandy as Labour's next leader would "end the in-fighting" in the party and "deliver a vision for real change", 60 supporters – including Jonathan Ashworth – have said in a new open letter, LabourList can reveal. Writing after the…
All voices must be on that ballot paper. Anything less is a mistake we cannot afford to make. I was one of those long-chastised members who called for a broad debate back in 2015. My god, if we needed it then, we need it even more now. I’m…
Labour’s parliamentary party in Westminster was treated to a hustings last night, where leadership candidates set out their pitches to those MPs who currently have nomination powers. Official figures have not yet been released, but we know…
Lisa Nandy has confirmed her Labour leadership bid in the Wigan Post, a local paper in the Greater Manchester constituency she represents, and has drawn attention to the need for devolution in the UK. The backbench Labour MP, who served as…
Open Labour, a group considered to be on the 'soft left' of the Labour Party, is calling on every leadership candidate to sign up to ten pledges ahead of the election in 2020. The proposed commitments are being released with the stated aim…
Every faction within Labour has its own explanation for what happened, and each can find the evidence to show they were right all along. Jeremy Corbyn loyalists blame Labour’s drift towards an anti-Brexit position. After all, in seats that…
The first parliamentary party meeting following that disastrous election result was always going to be a difficult one for Jeremy Corbyn, to put it mildly. Clive Efford of the Tribune group expressed real anger last night, and Tonia…
The Labour leadership election has unofficially begun. Some members of the party’s ruling body, the national executive committee, have been worrying about being cut out from the process. A special NEC officers meeting – which now consists…
The Andrew Marr Show John McDonnell apologised to candidates and MPs who lost their seats in the general election and took the blame for the loss. He also suggested he would be happy for Rebecca Long-Bailey, Angela Rayner, Dawn Butler and…
It’s looking good for the government in crucial ways: enough ex-Tories and Labour rebels are willing to vote for its withdrawal agreement bill at second reading that Commons approval of the new Brexit deal seems likely. But in his typical…
Three years after the referendum, parliament is as divided as before and the country is more so. My inbox, like that of every MP, is full of people who live just a few streets from each other demanding we either respect or overturn the…
