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Radio 4,25 Oct 2025,16 mins
The MP Lucy Powell has been elected as Labour's deputy leader
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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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