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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Stephanie Cockroft, Harriet Brewis

Labour leadership hustings LIVE: Five hopefuls go to head to head over Brexit, anti-Semitism and Boris Johnson

The five candidates vying to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader discussed Brexit, anti-Semitism and fighting Boris Johnson in the first hustings of the leadership race.

The hustings, held in Liverpool, saw the would-be leaders put forward their bids as to how they would help the Labour Party recover from its historic defeat at the election in December.

It comes as a poll shows that shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer is the front-runner, with rising Labour star Rebecca Long-Bailey in second place.

They faced off against Wigan MP Lisa Nandy, Birmingham Yardley's Jess Phillips and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.

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