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Keir Starmer makes it onto the Labour leadership ballot: who else will join him?

21 January 2020

5:15 AM

21 January 2020

5:15 AM

Keir Starmer has made it through to the final round of the Labour leadership contest, having secured the backing of shop workers’ union Usdaw. The party’s rules state that a candidate needs to get the backing of three affiliated organisations, of which two must be trade unions (or the nomination of at least 33 constituency Labour parties), and along with the earlier backing of Unison and Labour’s Environment Campaign SERA, Starmer has made it.

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