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The Guardian - UK
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Morgan Jones

Chaos within Labour has paused for now, but after the May elections the leadership contest begins in earnest

A vote Labour sign in Gorton, Manchester, where newly elected Green party MP Hannah Spencer overturned a huge Labour majority.
A vote Labour sign in Gorton, Manchester, where newly elected Green party MP Hannah Spencer overturned a huge Labour majority. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Westminster politics is currently consumed by the fact that the May elections are next week.

On Tuesday night Labour MPs voted down a Tory proposal that would have seen the prime minister referred to the privileges committee over his handling of the Mandelson scandal. Just 15 Labour MPs – mostly long-term critics of the PM – voted for the Tory motion; 53 did not vote, not all of whom abstained.

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