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Who Is Running In Labour’s Deputy Leader Race
Angela Rayner's resignation removes a key moderate influence, intensifying Labour's internal struggles and enabling the left wing to gain momentum, complicating upcoming elections.
- Last week, Angela Rayner resigned from her deputy roles, prompting a weekend cabinet reshuffle that moved David Lammy and Steve Reed into senior positions; Rayner was deputy Labour leader and deputy prime minister, seen as a bridge to the backbenches.
- An investigation found Angela Rayner breached the ministerial code by underpaying £40,000 in stamp duty earlier this year; her resignation triggered a deputy leadership contest and Labour's National Executive Committee will meet on Monday to set the timetable and rules.
- Crucially, the nomination threshold of 80 MPs, raised under current leadership, blocks many hard-left hopefuls, while potential candidates include Shabana Mahmood, Dame Emily Thornberry, David Lammy, Louise Haigh, Dawn Butler, and Rosena Allin-Khan.
- With Rayner gone, some warn Labour's left wing will 'have no holding back' and the deputy contest could overshadow the party conference and local elections in May.
- Labour's membership shift means the party faces tension from its leftward trend in recent years, external pressures from Reform UK, The Greens, independent Muslim voters, Jeremy Corbyn's project, and a historic 1981 deputy leadership contest precedent.
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Angela Rayner: Understanding the Pressures That Cost the Deputy PM Her Job
One cannot help but feel a measure of sympathy for Angela Rayner. I know her well enough to say that she came into politics for the best of reasons: a desire to serve, a determination to improve the lives of people whose struggles she understood from her own experience. But the further up the ladder one climbs in politics, the more insistent the temptations become. This is not simply about individual weakness or personal failing. It is structura…
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right4Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution33% Left, 33% Center, 33% Right
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- 33% of the sources lean Left, 33% of the sources are Center, 33% of the sources lean Right
33% Right
L 33%
C 33%
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