The Shadow Chancellor says that, under a Labour Government, “middle and lower earners will not have their taxes increased”.
The former Home Secretary agrees that the Labour Party is facing an existential crisis, and that Corbyn needs to “step up to the plate”.
Plus: we profile the latest tranche of newly selected candidates.
The Prime Minister’s policy adviser on industrial strategy and the Northern Powerhouse won tonight’s vote.
The former Army officer won out against Alicia Kearns and Joe Robertson.
Some in the EU still imagine Britain might u-turn. Let’s show them without doubt that we won’t.
Alicia Kearns joins Joe Robertson and Bob Seely in the island contest.
The three would-be successors to Sir Edward Garnier. Plus, six new candidates, and the shortlist for Leeds North East.
But the two halves of any putative progressive alliance are divided. The intelligentsia may be against Brexit, but the working class is enthusiastically for it.
This fourth piece of our mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues she must build a fair market for all.
That’s two of the original three out of the contest: Seely remains in it. The selection will take place later this week.
The Prime Minister cites “threats against Britain” that have “been issued by European politicians and officials”.
A North Lincolnshire councillor and a Grimsby TV executive are in the running.
The grassroots are feeling positive. But CCHQ will worry that voters won’t find Corbyn a plausible threat.
Corbyn is unfitted to public office of any sort. All sensible Labour folk know it, but many cannot currently bring themselves to say it outright.