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The Latest Breaking News from Lucy Powell

‘We'll do the right thing’: Cabinet minister signals two-child benefit cap will be scrapped

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says she’ll be ‘arguing’ the case for the change

Evening Standard

Why should you be Labour’s next deputy leader? Guardian readers quiz the candidates

As party members prepare to choose between Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell, the pair give their views on wealth taxes, Brexit, the climate crisis and the far right

The Guardian - UK

Phillipson presses Starmer and Reeves to abolish two-child benefit cap in full

Exclusive: education secretary tells the Guardian scrapping limit entirely in November’s budget most cost-effective way to tackle child poverty

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Labour deputy leadership candidate say government is in ‘fight of our lives’

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The Independent UK

Phillipson accuses Powell of ‘energising our opponents’ as voting begins

Ballots opened on Wednesday for members and affiliates in the Labour deputy leadership race.

The Independent UK

Labour ‘can’t sugarcoat fact things aren’t going well’, deputy leadership candidate says

The deputy leadership contender said the party needs to start telling ‘a stronger story’

The Independent UK

Labour ‘can’t sugarcoat fact things aren’t going well’, Lucy Powell says

The deputy leadership contender said the party needs to start telling ‘a stronger story’.

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Lucy Powell tells Labour it can’t sugarcoat how badly things are going

Frontrunner for deputy leadership addresses rally as opponent Bridget Phillipson pledges ‘second Labour term our children deserve’

The Guardian - UK

Neil Kinnock backs Lucy Powell in Labour deputy leadership race

The result of the contest to replace Angela Rayner will be announced on October 25.

Evening Standard

Lucy Powell dismisses ‘ridiculous’ claims she would bring division to Labour

Labour needs to ‘tell a much stronger story’ about the purpose of this Government, the deputy leadership hopeful said.

Evening Standard

Phillipson says there is ‘real urgency’ to scrapping two-child benefit cap

Campaigners say it pulls more than 100 children across the UK into poverty every day.

Evening Standard

Labour members feel disconnected from government, says Lucy Powell

Deputy leadership candidate tells hustings party is not heeding feedback from doorstep, with impact on activists

The Guardian - UK

Stop trying to ‘out-Reform, Reform’, deputy Labour leadership candidate warns Starmer

In a damning indictment of the government, Lucy Powell said her 21-year-old son had ‘struggled’ with her being part of the Labour government because ‘we’ve not got some of the politics right’

The Independent UK

Powell and Phillipson vie for votes as Labour conference draws to a close

The pair displayed little disagreement during a hustings at the end of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday.

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Labour is pleasing no one by trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’, Powell says

The former Commons leader challenged Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to use its position in power to ‘set the terms of the debate’.

Evening Standard

Starmer faces calls to scrap two-child benefit cap as MPs head to Liverpool

The Prime Minister will be joined in Liverpool by delegates and activists for Labour’s annual conference.

The National (Scotland)

Elections watchdog rules out fresh probe into Morgan McSweeney think tank

THE elections watchdog will not reopen an investigation into secret donations to a group which helped propel Keir Starmer to power – despite…

The Guardian - UK

Farage endangering women by failing to condemn paracetamol claims, says Bridget Phillipson

Labour deputy leader candidate criticises ‘scaremongering’ on autism and says party must be firmer in tackling Reform

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The Independent UK

Lucy Powell: Labour must grab ‘political microphone’ back from Nigel Farage

The Manchester Central MP made her pitch just days before party delegates and activists gather in Liverpool for their annual conference.

The Independent UK

‘Near impossible’ for poorer families to afford food and bills as UK faces decade of falling incomes, report warns

The findings will pile further pressure on the chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap long blamed for keeping children in poverty

The National (Scotland)

Andy Burnham: Labour MPs are privately urging me to oust Keir Starmer

ANDY Burnham has said MPs are privately urging him to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership in an intervention likely to fuel speculation…

Evening Standard

Andy Burnham reveals Labour MPs privately urging him to challenge Starmer as he accuses PM of creating 'climate of fear'

The Manchester mayor’s vision to ‘turn the country around’ includes higher council tax on London homes and a 50p top rate of income tax

The Independent UK

Labour MPs are privately urging me to challenge Starmer, Andy Burnham says

Manchester mayor accuses No 10 of creating a ‘climate of fear’ in remarks likely to be seen as a pitch for a future leadership bid

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham: The ‘King of the North’ whose bid to return to Westminster sparked Labour civil war

PROFILE: Keir Starmer is floundering in the polls, and Labour needs rescuing from the growing threat of Reform. Sean O’Grady asks whether the ‘King of the North’ could be its knight in shining armour, even after his Westminster bid was blocked by Starmer

Evening Standard

Andy Burnham urges ‘wholesale change’ to see off ‘existential’ threat to Labour

The Mayor of Greater Manchester criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s running of the Government ahead of the Labour conference.

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