Momentum steering group backs Rebecca Long-Bailey as Labour leader
The left wing campaign group also said Angela Rayner should become the party’s deputy.
The left wing campaign group also said Angela Rayner should become the party’s deputy.
There were peace rallies on Saturday in London, Liverpool, Chesterfield, Warrington, Canterbury, Swansea, Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol.
The leadership frontrunner launches his leadership campaign with a promise to hound Boris Johnson relentlessly in Parliament.
Protesters say the situation in the Middle East remains ‘critical’ following the killing of Iran’s General Soleimani by a US drone.
Ahead of the debate, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer and Lord Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis on the Kindertransport to Britain when he was aged six, wrote to all Tory MPs calling on them to vote against the Boris Johnson’s “disgraceful” abandonment of the ‘Dubs' children.
Tory Brexiteer Suella Braverman even voted against the scheme – despite previously participating in it as a student.
The shadow Treasury minister said it was the party’s job to explain to voters its quest for better conditions was not a ‘mad socialist perspective’.
With the COP25 dubbed “a climate summit to forget”, the pressure is piling on PM Boris Johnson to deliver tangible results if London wants to be seen as a global climate leader.
Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips all secured the 22 MP and MEP nominations required to continue.
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