General election 2019
Candidate for Labour's top job suggests leader who presided over worst defeat since 1935 was faultless.
The northern MP announced her candidacy through a letter in the Wigan Post – the same day as Jess Phillips revealed she would stand.
Birmingham MP appears to take aim at Sir Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long Bailey, warning "more of the same" will lead to another election defeat.
Boris Johnson's top aide posts free-wheeling blog urging an "unusual set of people" to come forward.
2019 saw another seismic shift in Britain’s political landscape. At the beginning, Theresa May’s government was struggling to get anything through the Commons as Westminster was stuck in deadlock but by the end of the year things were looking a lot rosier for the Conservatives under Boris Johnson, as he stormed the election to a massive majority over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour and a vow to get Brexit done.
The shadow Treasury minister is the second MP to declare their intention to take part in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour MPs won’t want three more months of the humiliation their leader got today.
All 11 of the MPs who quit Labour or the Tories lost their seats last week.
Keir Starmer warns PM as No.10 refuses to rule out looking at changes to system.
“It now looks like losing your seat is no impediment to calling the shots in our political system."