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The MP Lucy Powell has been elected as Labour's deputy leader

Lucy Powell has won the election to become Labour's deputy leader, after campaigning for the party to change course.

Lucy Powell has won the election to become Labour's deputy leader, after campaigning for the party to change course. She won 54% of the 161,000 votes that were cast in a ballot of members. Her opponent, the Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, polled 46%. Lucy Powell will be free to speak out from the back benches after she was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer in the reshuffle that followed Angela Rayner's resignation.

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