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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Will Durrant

Lucy Powell: Labour must grab ‘political microphone’ back from Nigel Farage

Lucy Powell faces Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in the race to become Labour’s next deputy leader (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Archive)

Nigel Farage “has been allowed to hog the political microphone all summer”, Lucy Powell has warned as she urged Labour activists and leaders to “grab it back”.

The Labour deputy leadership hopeful, who served in Sir Keir Starmer’s initial Cabinet, said her party had “sometimes struggled” to get attention during its first year in Government.

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