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LIZ KENDALL was dubbed the Labour leadership candidate of right-wing entryist group Progress yesterday after being backed by four leading Blairites.
Chuka Umunna, who had been a bookies’ favourite before pulling out, was among a group of shadow cabinet members who said that Ms Kendall was the candidate who could move the party “beyond our comfort zone.”
Stephen Twigg, Jonathan Reynolds and Emma Reynolds also gave their endorsements through a New Statesman article.
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Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES