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He gained 251,417 or 59.5% of first preference votes – 40% more than his nearest rival Mr Burnham, who got 19%.

The charge against the Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn is not that he is anti semitic.

Mr Straw said: “I am voting for Yvette Cooper”.

Mr Hunt is a supporter of Liz Kendall, seen as the most Blairite of the candidates – and the one who is lagging in the race, according to pollsters and bookies.

Ms Cooper is locked in a bitter battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, while the other contender Liz Kendall lags behind in fourth place. We need people dedicated to their brief who are able to work co-operatively with the party to set out a shared...

Membership of Aylesbury’s Labour party has doubled since the general election and there are more than 500 people here who are registered to vote in the contest.

“The Labour party needs to be an effective opposition more than ever – both in Westminster and in our streets – and I believe that suspending or delaying the leadership election would only undermine our ability to do that”.

He set out plans to stop the renewal of private operators’ franchises as passengers were told that low inflation would keep fare rises down next year. I think I have met some of them but they all sort of just float around and seem like they could have podded off of him...

(JNS.org) The U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle newspaper has sounded the alarm over the impending election of Member of Parliament Jeremy Corbyn as the next head of the Labour Party and British opposition leader, asking Corbyn to prove he is not “an enemy of Britain’s...

Opinion polls suggest Ms Cooper is locked in a battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, with Liz Kendall trailing in fourth place.

Mr Corbyn is now the favourite to win from Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham, with Ms Kendall consistently coming in fourth place in polls.

He added: ” The alternative to Syriza/ Corbyn is based on passionate reform, not angry defiance.

Andy Burnham used a keynote speech in Manchester today to try to woo the left-wing supporters of Labour-leadership race favourite Jeremy Corbyn.