{"id":410054,"date":"2025-09-09T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:14:14","slug":"bridget-phillipson-enters-labour-deputy-leader-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410054\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Phillipson enters Labour deputy leader contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

By contrast, Phillipson, as a cabinet minister, would be expected to be more supportive of the government and its policies.<\/p>\n

Announcing her decision to run, Phillipson described herself as a “proud working-class woman from the North East” who could bring “determination to every battle ahead of us”. <\/p>\n

“Because make no mistake: We are in a fight. We all know the dangers Reform poses our country.<\/p>\n

“But not only am I ready for it: I’ve proven we can do it. I’ve shown we can beat Farage in the North East, while staying true to the Labour Party’s values of equality, fairness and social justice.” <\/p>\n

Asked about the contest on BBC Breakfast, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he had not yet made up his mind about who he would support.<\/p>\n

He added that deputy leadership contests usually took place after Labour had lost an election, but this one was taking “place in the context of a party who are in government, and whose focus has got to be delivering the change we promised at the last election”.<\/p>\n

Whoever wins the contest, David Lammy will remain as deputy prime minister – a role which is appointed by the prime minister, rather than decided by Labour Party members. <\/p>\n

Last week, Rayner resigned from the role<\/a>, as well as her post as housing secretary, after admitting she failed to pay enough tax on her \u00a3800,000 flat in Hove.<\/p>\n

Sir Laurie Magnus, the PM’s ethics adviser, found she did get legal advice when buying the property, but failed to seek further expert tax advice as recommended.<\/p>\n

Rayner said she took “full responsibility for this error”, adding: “It was never my intention to do anything other than pay the right amount.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By contrast, Phillipson, as a cabinet minister, would be expected to be more supportive of the government and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-410054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115173580083825315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}