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Jeremy Corbyn's successor will be Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips or Thornberry.
Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Jess Phillips or Emily Thornberry are still in the race.
Shadow foreign secretary has not yet secured the 22 nominations necessary.
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, the current frontrunner in the race, has vowed to defend 'Labour's radical values' and 'pursue Boris Johnson relentlessly in parliament'.
But the one concrete outcome could be a much stronger shadow frontbench.
HuffPost UK revealed on Wednesday that the shadow cabinet minister was weighing up a bid for the top job.
Labour MP Rachel Reeves joins the HuffPost UK politics team to adjust to the new year and the new order of British politics. With Labour searching for a new leader, Reeves gives her thoughts on what the party needs to do to win the next election.And the team digest Boris Johnson’s response to a week in which the US and Iran reached the brink of war.
Rebecca Long-Bailey and Keir Starmer are among a number of potential successors.
Members require a leadership that will retain the ambition that took the party by storm in 2015, Labour strategist Simon Fletcher writes.
Shadow Brexit secretary gives big job to former party campaigns chief and Ken Livingstone aide