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COMMENT: The race to be the party’s deputy is likely to bring out a host of disgruntled candidates – none more politically damaging, or more popular with the grass-roots, than Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary that Starmer sacked, says former Labour adviser Patrick Diamond

Labour’s national executive meeting to draw up plans for contest today

Prime minister faces criticism from Emily Thornberry, who highlights risk of ‘handing country to Farage’

PM told he needs to listen to members as Emily Thornberry becomes first senior MP to confirm she is considering running

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Dame Emily Thornberry said she is considering standing for the deputy leadership and that members must be listened to more

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Heidi Alexander said the announcement is ‘about the Palestinian people’.

COMMENT: The natural reaction of the British public to the scenes of starvation and death in Gaza is to call on politicians to do something – Emily Thornberry, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, says Keir Starmer must follow France and formally recognise Palestinian statehood

Hard hitting report has also fuelled deep divisions within the Labour Party over Middle East policy

The UK’s actions over the ongoing conflict and ‘in the years preceding, have often been too little, too late’, the Foreign Affairs Committee has said.