As nominations for Labour’s Deputy Leader officially open today, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has declared he wants a Northern woman to replace Angela Rayner. Reports suggest No. 10’s preferred candidate is Northern woman and Housing Minister Alison McGovern. Fellow northern woman Bridget Phillipson is also standing…
Streeting told Times Radio:
“I would certainly prefer the next deputy leader to be a woman. Without being disrespectful to some brilliant women in London who are standing, like Emily Thornberry, who I’ve got lots of respect for, I can well understand why lots of my colleagues are saying we should have a deputy leader from outside London to broaden perspectives.”
Meanwhile, far-left Deputy Leader hopeful Bell Ribeiro-Addy was on the Today Programme to complain about the “undemocratic” three-day nomination window, demanding that members and voters have more time for a proper post-mortem on “what they don’t like” and “what’s gone wrong” with the government. The anyone-but-Emily campaign rolls on…
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