Lucy Powell has this morning won the race to be Labour’s No 2:
“Today (Saturday 25 October) Lucy Powell has been elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. The MP for Manchester Central was elected with 54% of the vote among eligible Labour Party members and affiliates.
The breakdown of votes was as follows:
Lucy Powell – 87,407 (54%)
Bridget Phillipson – 73,536 (46%)
Total Number of Eligible Voters: 970,642
Total Number of Votes Cast: 160,993
Turnout: 16.6%
Spoilt Ballots: 50″
She was sacked, now she’s back…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”