During a brief window from 14th – 16th January, people were able to sign up as registered supporters by paying a fee of £25, while this does not make them a full Labour member it does allow them to vote in the Labour leadership and Labour Deputy Leadership elections. The Labour Party announced that it […]
With MP/MEP nominations now closed, all current standing candidates in the main leadership election have qualified for the first requirement of 22 MEP/MP backers with Emily Thornberry managing to cross the line just 9 minutes left to go. The candidates are Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips and Emily Thornberry. I will be […]
Clive Lewis has pulled out of the leadership race saying that it is clear he will not reach the required nominations to qualify and wanted to allows his nominators to recast to another candidate. There is just under half an hour to go until the deadline is reached. It remains to be seen if Emily […]
The deadline for MP/MEP nominations are today at 2:30pm and we will be seeing whether Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis can reach the required 22 backers they need to qualify for the first part of the leadership election. So far Emily Thornberry sits on 10 backers while Clive Lewis only has four, but is the […]
It has been announced that we will know by 4th April who the new leader of the UK’s Labour Party will be after Jeremy Corbyn’s stunning election defeat. So far six candidates have stood in the bid to become Labour’s new top dog and are hoping they will be the ones to fix Labour and […]
We are starting to see things ramping up now in the Labour Leadership election. So far Keir Starmer has become the first candidate to reach the first qualification threshold by receiving far beyond the required 22 MP/MEP backers, analysis of the backers show that many of them are MPs who did not support Corbyn in […]