Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn hugs Rebecca Long Bailey in October 2019
THE left has rallied around Rebecca Long Bailey as she confirmed that she was standing to lead the Labour Party.
After her announcement in Tribune on Monday night, Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery pulled back from entering the race and offered his “full support” to Ms Long Bailey.
Writing in Tribune today, he said that Ms Long Bailey “built much of what we got right over the last four years and has a sensitive understanding of what went wrong, forged in a spirit of genuine inquiry, not point-scoring.”
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