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Andy Burnham has a small lead in the leadership race with both Labour supporters and the general public, according to new Ipsos-MORI research. Reported in the Evening Standard, the polling also found that of past Labour leaders, the party's…
What the papers say The Telegraph's Ben Riley-Smith appear to be the only commentator today willing to declare a winner of last night's leadership debate on Newsnight. He says "Far-Left MP Jeremy Corbyn has emerged the clear winner in…
Andy Burnham Burnham played to his roots, emphasising that he could reconnect the party with much of its traditional support that has been alienated - working class support for Labour has plummeted over the last ten years. He stressed that…
Yvette Cooper’s campaign team have said they won't engage in “unpleasant anonymous briefing[s] and counter-briefing[s]” in the Labour leadership race. Cooper is standing against Andy Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall to be Labour's…
We now know which four candidates will be on the ballot paper to be Labour’s next leader. I am quite clear that Yvette Cooper is the best choice to take on the three critical tasks facing our party: building a broad platform for victory in…
Toby Perkins, who is chairing Liz Kendall's campaign, has written to both Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper concerning anonymous briefings made by one of their campaigns which compared Kendall supporters to the Taliban. This morning's…
He left it late, but he managed it - Jeremy Corbyn is on the ballot after a late flurry of nominations. With two minutes to go until the deadline, he still required two nominations, but somehow managed it. He's certainly introduced a sense…
Yvette Cooper has pledged to reinstate the last Labour Government's pledge to end child poverty within a generation. In a speech tomorrow, Cooper will say that Labour must revive the targets set under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In 1998…
I have a lot of time for Andy Burnham. He’s from Liverpool, I’m from Liverpool. He supports Everton, so do I. I feel like I know him. So I was sad and disappointed when I read his speech about getting tough on benefits – and I decided to…
The Labour leadership candidates divided today over whether the party should back the government’s plans to further reduce the benefits cap. The question elicited the biggest reaction from the audience at the GMB annual congress in Dublin…
Yvette Cooper will today say that she will never "never slag off people on benefits because they cant work as “work shy” or “scroungers”. Speaking at the leadership hustings taking place at Fabian Conference, she will argue that putting a…
Today Yvette Cooper is visiting Scotland. Cooper, who is in the running be Labour's next leader, will go to both Glasgow and Edinburgh in an effort to understand the “profound nature of the challenge" the party faces in Scotland. This comes…
