rebecca long— bailey rebecca long—bailey is notjeremy corbyn.dividual. she has her own visions. she was incredibly good in there. i have to say, by the way, that the contributions of all the candidates, both in terms of the leadership and the deputy leadership, was of the highest quality. it makes me very proud to know that we have such tale nt proud to know that we have such talent in the labour party, but rebecca long— bailey's talent in the labour party, but rebecca long—bailey's was very insightful, she gave a detailed account of how she would try to win back the trust of the british people and it certainly captured the views of my executives. it was overwhelming that we should support rebecca long— bailey. support rebecca long-bailey. len mccluskey there. clearly as your expert and, in terms of numbers to get yourself on the ballot, it is important to have union backing, how significant is it going forward in the contest? union members at vote in the final ballot as well, and now you have weight, which is one of the largest unions in countr

so far, rebecca long bailey is just on the ballots. ho they are backing. ina tell us know who they are backing. in a second anyway, let's have a listen. writes, i will speak to this camera, and that i will take questions. first of all, thank you very much for waiting. can i first of all say that myself, personally, and the executor would like to send out and the executor would like to send our best wishes to kier starmer and his family for what he's going through at the moment. i can tell you that chris matheson did him very proud in deputizing for him. but the united executive have overwhelmingly endorsed rebecca long bailey as their candidate for leader, and also richer burden as the candidate for a deputy leader, it was the view of the executive that rebecca has both the executive that rebecca has both the brains and the brilliance to ta ke the brains and the brilliance to take on boris johnson. the brains and the brilliance to take on borisjohnson. she's incredibly committed, very strong in her beliefs of vision, for uniting the par

absolutely, and you will see the left of the party get behind rebecca long—bailey in the next few weeksey will get behind rebecca long—bailey and there is a process they have to go through before they endorse her. she is adamant she is not the so—called continuityjeremy corbyn candidate. this is what she told sky tv this morning. this is what she told sky tv this morning. the platform upon which many of those policies were developed was positive and, as i said, it did deal with the reinvestment and reinvigoration of our economy and the shift of wealth and power away from those few minorities that have it to everybody in every single community, but we didn't get that message through, unfortunately. we need to recognise that. asi as i say, she has the backing of some people who are key tojeremy corbyn‘s campaign, like john mcdonnell, the shadow chancellor. but they all have this tightrope to walk. they have to sound radical, say to the members that the things they have done over the last few yea rs they have done over the last few years where the right thing to do, but they have to do it

if you go for rebecca long—bailey, it is more oi’ for rebecca long—bailey, it is more or less, more left row would be the consequence and it would be a harsh defeat because voters may be looking to change their mind about boris johnson but you get rebecca long—bailey there is no chance of change and they will say labour has rejected them. you mention they all showed some potential, the ability to be leader. if you had been in that audience, today, what question would you have asked that would have allowed you to distinguish the true leader? i would have said what went wrong in the last election. and what did jeremy do wrong? because i think people do need to be honest with the party that is one of the themes lisa has brought up time and again has been ethel labour party doesn't change, we're going to die. the chief constable of northamptonshire police has demanded an urgent meeting with the commander of the us base, where the woman wanted over the death of harry dunn was stationed, after video emerged of another incident involving a car being driven nearby on the wrong wide of the road.

as i say, keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey who we are about to hear from rebecca long—bailey whoarfrom a peer—to—peer frontrunners by some distance. but lisa nandy and jess phillips and indeed emily thornberry will be looking at the few weeks they have to change members names, saying it is also playful. nick, thanks very much. let's take another look at the scene live in manchester, we're just for rebecca long—bailey. scene live in manchester, we're just for rebecca long-bailey. to take to the podium, she will be introduced bya the podium, she will be introduced by a fellow mp. and we will finally hear her set out her pitch to the party membership. we will bring you the latest. stay with us. don't forget, we will be finding out how this and many other stories are covered this and many other stories are in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 and 11:30 this evening in the papers our guestsjoining me tonight are david bond, brexit editor at the financial times and nicola bartlett, political correspondent for the daily mirror. a number of british cities are aiming to go completely carbon

labour, his union is labour's largest financial backer, and on friday they officially endorsed rebecca long baileyhe successor to jeremy corbyn, endorsed rebecca long bailey to be the successor tojeremy corbyn, also endorsed richard birgen as their preferred choice to be deputy leader. she is seen in some circles as the continuity corbyn candidate, but len mccluskey denied that was the case, saying she has her own person, and he gave a staunch defence of rebecca long bailey this morning. rebecca long bailey is absolutely brilliant. she was brilliant on the day, she is brave, courageous, brilliant on the day, she is brave, courageous, her capabilities are beyond doubt, and i think she is the one that can actually unite the party and take a message not only to our heartlands, which we need to win back, but to the rest of our nation. she is somebody who believes in lots of the radical policies that have been developed over the years, but she has something else as well. she wants to talk to the aspirational views of ordinary people. and the backing of unite remains effectively that rebecca long bailey

you will see the left of the party really get behind rebecca long—bailey in the next few weeks.ing to get behind her, there is a process they have to go through before they officially endorse her. she has been adamant that she is not the so—called continuity corbyn candidate, she is her own woman. have a listen to what she told sophie rich this morning. the platform upon which many of those policies was developed was positive and it did deal with the reinvestment and reinvigoration of our economy and the shift of wealth and power away from those few minorities that have it to everybody and every single community, but we did not get that message through, and we need to recognise that. she has the backing of some people who were key to mr corbyn‘s campaign, like john mcdonald, but they all have this tightrope to walk, and you will see with keir starmer as well, saying to members, the things we have done over the last few years were the right things to do, we just need to do some of it differently. it is saying, i will continue with somejeremy corbyn‘s but not quite bejeremy corbyn

he was very strong in his endorsement of rebecca long—bailey this morning. a long-bailey is absolutely brilliant, brilliant on the day, very, very good, she is brave, courageous. her capabilities are beyond doubt. i think she is the 1 that can actually unite the party and take a message to not only our heart which we need to win back, but to the rest of our nation. she is somebody who believes in lots of the radical policies that have been developed over the years, but she has something else as well. she wants to talk to the aspirational views of ordinary people. very influential figure, views of ordinary people. very influentialfigure, len mccluskey, within the labour movement. the fact his union has endorsed rebecca long—bailey all but mean she will make it onto the final ballot on joining sir keir starmer and lisa nandy. emily thornberry struggling to get enough support to make it onto the final ballot. still quite a long way to go in this leadership contest for the labour party, we will not know the eventual winner until the 11th of april. will not know t

the future direction of the party, so in terms of the front runners, it is keir starmer and rebecca long baileyy is seen as being very much on the cob corbynista side of the party. keir starmer less so. so, third person that is... of course, we have the other three candidates and you never know what could happen in an election race and we are having all of these hustings where where labour members will be able to get to see them in action and decide who was the best person, but it will determine the future direction of the labour party. british business groups have warned the chancellor there'll be higher prices if britain diverges from eu regulations, post—brexit. it comes after sajid javid's comments in today's financial times newspaper, where he also insists firms must adjust to new regulations, and that not all businesses will benefit from brexit. he says: he added: the food and drink federation warned it sounded like the "death knell" for frictionless trade, and the confederation of british industry said the government shouldn't feel ‘obliged' to depart from eu rules. the cbi's director ge

in the last hour, rebecca long—bailey has set out her pitch to the party's membership. promised to end what she'll call the "gentlemen‘s club of politics", by devolving powers to the regions. earlier, it was emily thornberry‘s turn. she opened her campaign in her home town of guildford, in surrey, saying it was important to choose a leader, who would take labour forward and bring back the voters the party had lost. our political correspondent, nick eardley, is in westminster, and he's following the twists and turns of the labour leadership campaign for us. and turns of the labour take and turns of the labour us through what we have h today, take us through what we have heard today, nick. i think take us through what we have heard today, nick. ithink from take us through what we have heard today, nick. i think from rebecca long—bailey, definitely one of the favourites in the leadership election, she had quite a fiery speech, talking about how she wanted to fight for labour's values, many of them are similar to the ones jeremy corbyn a spouse. not a big surprise because r

when you say it will die, are you saying that if rebecca long—bailey was elected leader and persistedeathknell for the labour party? the public are screaming at us. they desperately wanted to vote for it labour party that could be a credible alternative government. first of all it has to be a credible opposition, and the way we do that as we listen to what the public were screaming at us on the 12th of december. i knocked on many doors with labour supporters, who had voted labour all their life, who we re voted labour all their life, who were in tears. you listen to any member of parliament who just scraped home or lost their seats in the seats we have held for a number of decades, never mind years, they will tell you exactly the same thing. we have to listen to that and respond, and the role of the uk deputy leader is to go into those communities, listen to what they are saying, and make sure the labour party and structure is fit for the future. let's talk about the future, not the past. ian murray, thanks very much. i think there are seven candidates for deputy leader, i want to try

so far, six candidates have joined the race: rebecca long—bailey, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisahave a8 hours from 1a—16th january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to 2nd of april with the results announced two days later on the ath. today, it was sir keir starmer‘s turn to launch his official campaign to become the next party leader in manchester. speaking a little earlier, he said that factionalism within labour has to go and that the party must unite. he also promised to defend the party's radical values. we cannot be a divided party any more. we need to end the factionalism. being a very, very strong opposition up against borisjohnson and forging that path to victory. what i meant by retaining our radical values is we shouldn't throw away everything in the last four years. we are now the party of anti—austerity, we are the party that believes in investing in our public services and common ownership. we should retain that. the manifesto i am focused on is the next manifesto, not the last manifesto. but we shouldn't throw away what we h

one more name we are waiting on, rebecca long bailey, seen waiting on, rebecca long bailey, seen as waitingte. this may change everything. we thought at one point it might be this weekend, she shadow business secretary, she is seen as an shadow business secretary, she is seen as an ally ofjeremy corbyn and the current labour leadership, so when she enters the race in the next few days, i think she will be seen as the likely continuity candidate, and then things might become a bit clearer, will we get more of the same or will things change and a big way? thank you very much indeed. a senior figure in the review of the hs2 high speed rail project says it could end up costing £108 billion — almost double the original estimate. lord berkeley, who's a long—standing critic of the project, says its costs are out of control. i think it is 107 now, and it will probably go even higher than that. you do not need to go 400 kilometres an houror you do not need to go 400 kilometres an hour or even 360 in a country as small as ours. nobody else in the what does it, may be in china. small as ours. nobody e

the suggestion as the race is now down to keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey. to keir starmer and rebeccad the unions and the contest then goes to the membership in the end. format already have enough to go to the next stage, which is keir starmer, lisa nandy, jess phillips and rebecca long—bailey. clive lewis and a couple of others presumably... barry gardiner only lasted nine hours, didn't he?! and the deputy leadership, we have yet to see if richard burgon has got enough. but keir starmer is significantly ahead at the moment. what is interesting is his patch. the video that he put out at the launch, pre—the launch. it really patched him as being quite radical. i think the argument he was trying to say was, look, i have done an awful lot of things. i have not shouted about them. because he is a relatively... i mean, he is not one of these politicians that makes a huge amount of noise about every single thing that they do. but he was saying tojudge single thing that they do. but he was saying to judge him single thing that they do. but he was saying tojudge him on his record. the libel c

emily thornberry and rebecca long—bailey are yet to reach the threshold. irst preference vote would go to lisa nandy. our chief political correspondent vicki young is in westminster. rebecca long—bailey not there yet but many think that she will get the backing of the unite union so should not have much trouble. emily thornberry we'll have to go to the labour party to get 40% of support to progress. we are getting to position to know who will be on the ballot paper. rebecca long—bailey if he met many of someone who will follow in the same direction as jeremy corbyn. she has been relu cta nt to jeremy corbyn. she has been reluctant to criticise him as have all the candidates apart from jess phillips and rebecca long—bailey raised eyebrows when she asked what marks she would give corbyn possible to ship and she would say ten out of ten and today he spoke to our political editor. she said actually she felt the party did have at the election a great of policies. all of us within the labour party need to sell that message of aspiration, and we have to convince o

rebecca long bailey is talking to people about what they think went wrong. m and rebecca long bailey has 26. that is just about nominations, just about getting onto the ballot in the next stage. without the others in terms of numbers? at the moment you need 22 to get through. jess builds on 22, lisa nandi on 24, the two are struggling to make the car emily thorne bury on ten and clive lewis on four. ifjust a look at thorne bury on ten and clive lewis on four. if just a look at this thorne bury on ten and clive lewis on four. ifjust a look at this he would seek circular starmer is right ahead but it is not mps are going to chose who the next leader of the labour party is. and jess phillips, seen as labour party is. and jess phillips, seen as somewhat of a centrist candidate, we don't know what the new member signing up what becomes is not vote will be. goal number one is not vote will be. goal number one is how it is change since last time around we saw the sort of election. we are all assuming the membership is towards the left compared to mp5, but things mig

as expected, rebecca long—bailey is in the race.m her point of view is presenting herself as the carrier corbyn candidate, no big surprise, she has long been a stillwater camp corbyn, she has been ultra—loyal to him in the shadow cabinet, in the nec and her launch article in the tribune newspaper overnight, she makes absolutely clear that she stands by the corbyn policy is that the party put before the electorate in the election, she says not only did she truly believe in them, she helped to write many of them. interestingly, any subsequent interview she did on the bbc, she has a slightly more nuanced approach, acknowledging that brexit hand the party in the election, she concedes on anti—semitism and says that behind—the—scenes she was pressing for tougher action on anti—semitism, but it is clear she is pitching herself to those labour party members who want to carry on with the corbyn project, and this morning she clearly set out her support for the labour libre. jeremy suffered and precedented levels of criticism under attack aga

in terms of mps keir starmer it‘s a long way ahead with 68 nominations and rebecca long bailey has 26ey is favoured byjeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell, we think. momentum, the group within labour, they may back her, as well. but being so closely tied to the current leadership is a double—edged sword given how badly they did in the election. this label of continuity candidate as some are calling her, that is not something she totally welcomes as she said in the last hour. i'm not anybody's continuity candidate, i'm principled and i want to make sure we have a policy platform that will transform our economy and rebuild the industrialised areas that have lost faith in the labour party and faith in the political establishment and i also want to see a shift in power, economic power and political power, away from westminster and to the regions and nations that truly need to deliver the benefits to their communities. what about the other candidates? of the six you mentioned a few minutes ago, four of them have made the cut in terms of getting to the next round. we have also got lisa nandy wh

today rebecca long—bailey began talking, at the moment, she has had a difficult start to her campaignas a continuity candidate and given what happened in the election, that isn't particularly help. she has been speaking in the last hour to sky news and she was asked about that, this key question, what went wrong in the election? this is what she had to say. the platform upon which many of those policies were developed was positive and, as i said, it did deal with the reinvestment and reinvigoration of our economy and the shift of wealth and power away from those few minorities that have it to everybody in every single community, but we didn't get that message through, unfortunately. we need to recognise that. very interesting from rebecca long—bailey, not particularly apologetic about much in the run—up to the election and it is a challenge for her because she is the favoured candidate of momentum, this grouping of the left within labour, but of course, she was instrumental in the manifesto. she needs to stop being the continuity candidate and not disassociate herself with the work sh

early this evening, rebecca long—bailey set out her pitch to the membership in manchester. end the gentleman's club of politics by devolving power to the regions. before that, it was emily form bree's turn. she opened her campaign in her hometown saying it was important to choose a leader to take labour forward and bring important to choose a leader to take labourforward and bring back important to choose a leader to take labour forward and bring back the voters the party had lost. 0ur correspondent has been following the action. from rebecca long-bailey, definitely one of the favourites in this election, a fiery speech there in the last hour talking about how she wanted to fight for labour values, many of those values similar to those thatjeremy corbyn espoused. not a big surprise because long—bailey was one of his key allies and drew up many of his key policies. her argument was that labour lost the election badly because people lost trust in the party and its ability to deliver. her case is that she can help to rebuild that trust over the next few yea rs. rebuild that tr

i have got to say, though, rebecca long—bailey is the favourite candidate of the left.en some of the pressure groups, like momentum, start lobbying for particular candidates, that she will pick up a lot of that ground as well. in terms of people who we think are going to definitely get through the next phase tomorrow, in fact, who we know are going to get through the next phase tomorrow, lisa nandy and jess phillips will be past that as well. so keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, and jess phillips will get onto the next stage. it is proving quite hard at the moment for clive lewis in particular. he has only got the backing of four mps. you need 22 to get through. emily thornberry, a prominent person in the shadow cabinet, only has ten as well. when she spoke to andrew marr earlier, she did say she was confident. let's have a listen. can you do it? yeah, i think so. i mean, what has happened has been that we have only had a week to get the nominations in. there is a large number of mps who haven't nominated yet, and many of them have wanted to speak to their

sir keir starmer, rebecca long bailey, jess phillips and lisa nandy have the required number of nominationsf at least 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14th to the 16th of january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to the 2nd of april. with the results announced two days later on the 11th days later on the 11th april. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent nick eardley who gave a rundown of the six candidates who are looking to replacejeremy corbyn as labour leader. just to take you through how they are all doing. clive lewis has got four. he is not smiling like he is in that picture. keir starmer at the moment is the man to beat. he is far out in the lead on 68 and the opinion poll we have seen suggests he is doing well with the labour membership as well. but do not count on anything being guaranteed because on anything being guaranteed because on the far side we also have rebecca long—bailey. 26 nominations at the moment, but she is the preferred candidate

shejoinsjess phillips, sir keir starmer, lisa nandy and rebecca long bailey — who'd already got the backingf 22 mps and meps. earlier, clive lewis pulled out — after he failed to get the necessary support. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. she has been hearing the opinions of labour party members. who will they choose? after being battered at the election, labour members have another big vote, this time, a vote of their own. we've got to get this right. we've got to get this leadership election right. we need to get back in there, and show people... we need to win. otherwise we are going to have 15 years of a conservative government. but, who could build a labour government? way ahead among mps is sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary. wigan mp lisa nandy is in the race.

newspapers yesterday, which would point out that pages need filling, it is that apparently rebecca long—baileyailey but a photo appeared on social media of her constituency office in salford in the north west office in salford in the north west of england in which it did not feature. so i am not entirely sure her policy on hyphens is entirely clear, let alone the scrutiny that will come under... let's get to her message, is her message right? rebecca long—bailey is the closest candidate on this list of five to jeremy corbyn. and she is proud about that. she said in an interview last week that she would give jeremy corbyn ten out of ten which raised the odd eyebrow given thatjeremy corbyn, whatever his fans might say, lost to general elections in a row. she said she wrote most of the policies labour campaigned on in the general election but she is her own woman and from a different generation tojeremy corbyn and she would not come with quite so much of the baggage that critics were able to throw around jeremy corbyn's net. if you can throw baggage around annex. . . if you can throw baggage arou

if you go for rebecca long—bailey, it is more left, more left him a more left, five defeats in a row g bailey come in no chance of change. i would say labour has rejected them. you mentioned there that they all showed some potential, the ability to be leader. if you have been in that audience today, what question would you have asked that would have allowed you to distinguish the true leader? what went wrong in the last election and what did jeremy do wrong? because i think people do need to be honest with the party. that's one of the themes that lisa has brought up time and again, if the labour party doesn't change, we are going to die. i think you need to say, i think that's right. tell us what it was we did wrong. what do we need to change? why do we need to change? we cannot have this kind of, the ma nifesto cannot have this kind of, the manifesto was kind of ok and let's not slack off the last labour government. 13 years of government. four years of opposition under jeremy corbyn, two defeats, two decisive defeats. we've got to start saying what it is that went wrong stop what is

he is not the obviousjeremy corbyn candidate, because that is rebecca long bailey, but her campaign iselped jeremy corbyn win the leadership elections he won, they have said they will ballot their members on who to back but quite clearly they want it to be rebecca long bailey. they are recommending to their members get behind and that will give her a big boost and although keir starmer appears to be out in front at the moment i would suggest over the next few months before we get the next labour leader there is room for movement in that race. when it gets going and when some of the more radical pro—jeremy corbyn groups start their weight about suspect that will work well for rebecca long bailey but there are other candidates, as well. lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips. they will be looking to make up ground over the next few weeks. the first thing is who will get through to the next round and the 22 mps backing them which they need. clive lewis and emily thornberry are struggling to get that mamba but the other four —— to get that at the moment but the other four

so front runners are keir starmer and rebecca long bailey.e other three candidates, we are having all of these hustings where labour will get to decide who we re where labour will get to decide who were the best people. but it will determine the future direction of the labour party. thank you very much. british business groups have warned the chancellor, there'll be consequences if britain diverges from eu regulations, post—brexit. it comes after sajid javid's comments in today's financial times times where he's also said that not all businesses will benefit from brexit. in the newspaper piece he says there will not be alignment, we will not bea will not be alignment, we will not be a real taker we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union, and we will do this by the end of the year. he added that we are talking about companies that have known since 2016 that we are leaving the eu. there we re that we are leaving the eu. there were warnings that it sounded like the death knell for frictionless trade. business st

what is it you like about rebecca long—bailey? it is the policies. how to make the policies work. keir is steady and sensible. and i know sensible isn't terribly appealing, but i think it's what we need. you know, we've had some pretty mad ideas. and a lot of disappointment, really. disappointment has all too often been labour's predicament. choosing a new leader and deputy is a chance, at least, to start to change the mood. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, bury. our top story this evening. after talks at sandringham the queen says she supports prince harry and meghan‘s wish for a more independent life. and still to come — will flybe keep flying? reports that europe's largest regional airline is seeking an emergency bailout. coming up on sportsday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news, james hook calls it a day. we look back at his fantastic rugby union career — and also a future that could see him become a children's writer. storm brendan has swept into the uk, battering northern ireland and scotland with winds just short of 90 mph. there are weather warnin

rebecca long bailey will be in one way or another. she has the backing of three local parties at the moment, but she needs to get it to 30 if she‘s going to get onto that final ballot. there is still a long way to go in this race then, it is not over until april. we will see a lot of movement in the favourite vision before then.. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. it has been a glorious morning across parts of yorkshire. this weather front did produce a wee bit of rain. for northern ireland and southern scotland, but is dying in death and has just enhanced the cloud. in northern ireland it will brighten up so to the north—east of scotla nd brighten up so to the north—east of scotland in places. one or two showers. favoured spots and the use of the pennines in one or two other areas. temperature is pretty much eight to about ten or 11 celsius if you are lucky. the rain pulls away from the western side of scotland having returned later on and then goes across the western isles later on. it leaves behind some clouds but if you are

so that news just into us here at the bbc, that the shadow business secretary rebecca long bailey haswith us for the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the deputy editor of the daily express, michael booker, and the chief executive of the new economics foundation and former labour adviser, miatta fahnbulleh. welcome to you both, great to have you here. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. and the metro leads on the life sentence handed to reynhard sinaga, thought to be the uk's most prolific realists to make a rapist. the guardian also focus on reynhard sinaga, how the court heard he would never be safe to be released. the daily mail asks, how many more did he rape? reynhard sinaga attacked 195 men, but police estimate the true number may be higher. the independenfs true number may be higher. the independent‘s front page sees the supreme independent‘s front page sees the supreme leader of iran is standing over the coffin of the country's most senior general, qasem soleimani, who was assassinated by th

of course the news broken tonight before it could get on this front page is that rebecca long bailey xth think it is good the nec has decided that actually this electorate will not just be existing that actually this electorate will notjust be existing members. for me, it is an interesting field. there are some good candidates there. it is notjust to win the labour ship there. it is notjust to win the labourship —— there. it is notjust to win the labour ship —— membership and appeal to the membership but to have an eye on the country. you cannotjust be trying to tell a story about how you are going to take the party forward, but more importantly what it is you believe that you can do for the country. some races you can focus on the membership of don't think they can do that this time. i think they need to be saying this is what we have to offer and they need to be willing voters at they lost now in order to kinda build up momentum over the next four or five years and i think the big thing for me is there is lots that has to be learned about what went wrong in that election and what dr

the latest to declare, rebecca long bailey.nt to rush to announce her candidacy because she wa nted announce her candidacy because she wanted to reflect on what she called the devastating result of the election. reflections have led her to believe that was a failure of strategy, not policy. who are this final six? we got emily thornbury, jess phillips, clive lewis, keir starmer, lisa nandy and rebecca long bailey. i have to get the nominations of 10% of labour mps and meps. they got a week to do that and nominations open today. in australia, hundreds of volunteer firefighters have attended the funeral of one of their colleagues, who died while battling bushfires. andrew 0'dwyer was killed in new south wales last month when a tree fell in the path of his fire engine. let's speak now to our correspondent, jonathan head, who's there. this is a town called wingello which was other fires over the weekend. the house behind me belonged to a lady called may king who sought for the first time. she was extraordinarily courageous. so many

his union came out and endorsed rebecca long bailey on friday. no surprise there. r rebecca to be the continuityjeremy corbyn people consider rebecca to be the continuity jeremy corbyn candidate. she disputes that, she is of the opinion that she is her own person and has a new agenda to take the labour party forward. but len mccluskey staunch in his defence of rebecca long bailey this morning. she is absolutely brilliant. she was brilliant on the day, very good. i think she is brave, courageous, her capabilities are beyond doubt. i think she is the one that can actually unite the party and take a message to not only our heartlands, which we need to wind back, but to the rest of our nation. she is somebody who believes in lots of the radical policies that have been developed over the years. she has something else as well, she wants to talk to the aspirational views of ordinary people. and of course, that process still has some way to go. an awful long way to go when it comes to the labour leadership contest. we are currently in the phase when candidates are trying to

sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations — leavinge lewis lobbying to get the backing of at least 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14th to the 16th of january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to the 2nd of april. with the results announced two days later on the 4th april. 0ur political correspondent tony bonsignore gave us this update. rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, jess phillips and sir keir starmer, who is way out ahead with 68 nominations at the moment. there are two struggling at the moment which is emily thornbury — she's got 10 — and clive lewis who's only got four nominations. emily has been speaking to bbc in the last hour or so. she's got 12 to go so not even halfway there, but she says she is still pretty confident that she can get over the line. can you do it? i think so. what's happened is we've only had a week to get those nominations in. there is a large number of mps who haven't nominated ye

sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations, leavingobbying to get the backing of at least 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14th to 16th january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to 2nd april, with the results announced two days later on 11th april. 0ur political correspondent, tony bonsignore, joins me now. jess phillips as well, she is part of that group. four at the moment, full of the 16 have got enough at the moment, enough meps or mps nominations to get through to the next stage. rebecca long—bailey, lisa nandy, jess phillips, sir keir starmer, who was way out ahead, 68 nominations. two struggling at the moment, emily thornberry, she has ten, clive lewis, he has four nominations. emily thornberry has been speaking to bbc in the last hour, clearly has 12 to go, not even halfway, but she says she is still pretty confident she can get over the line. can you do it? yeah, i think so. the line. can you do it? y

rebecca long— bailey is absolutely brilliant. she was brilliant on the day, very, very good.s, her capabilities are beyond doubt, and i think she's the one that can actually unite the party and take a message to, not only our heartlands, which we need to win back, but to the rest of our nation. she's somebody who believes in lots of the radical policies that have been developed over the years, but she has something else as well. she wants to talk to the aspirational views of ordinary people. the backing of unite effectively means rebecca long—bailey will be on the final ballot that is sent to members, joining lisa nandy and sir keir starmer, who have already reached that threshold. emily thornberry, the outcome still struggling to get enough support, we will see if she manages to do that. — the will see if she manages to do that. - the 4th will see if she manages to do that. — the 11th candidate in the race, still struggling to get enough support. sport and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. good morning. days 7 at the australian open is almost at an end, wins for nov

closest to jeremy corbyn, though, is the frontbencher rebecca long—bailey. so what is needed?n win elections, because otherwise, we'lljust become an irrelevance, a pressure group. we do need to get somebody in the leadership who can unite the party, because it has been terribly divided. even down at local level. i'm not a big jeremy corbyn fan, but there are a lot of people out there that supported him, and want his policies to continue. wrong direction is if we keep the status quo as we are. the electorate have stamped their foot and said, "listen, you need to listen to what we're saying." so you're moving out? they all know the pain of defeat. yeah, we've got about a month left tojust wind everything up. labour lost by just 105 votes here in bury north. the former mp is adamant the next leader has to pass muster in marginal seats like this. "the labour party loves a good loser". somebody said that to me in a bid to console me following the election result. and i think we need to be more brutal in our assessment of what matters to the electorate. i think we need to be more br

sir keir starmer, rebecca long bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations, leavingt the backing of at least 22 of their fellow labourmps and meps. jess phillips also has the required number. jess phillips also has the required number. registered supporters who are not full party members will have 48 hours from 14th to the 16th of january to secure a vote by paying £25. the ballot will be open from 21st february to the 2nd of april with the results announced two days later on the 11th april. 0ur political correspondent tony bonsignorejoins me now. tony, first of all, four of the people on the picture behind us are through this first stage. why are clive lewis and emily thornberry having difficulties securing enough support? that is a very good question and i am sure they are asking themselves and their teams that right now. clive lewis is the outsider. four nominations, including himself. he has been talking this morning and is not hopeful about getting enough. there are still more than 50 mps and meps who have not declared, but it will bea who have not declared, but

closest to jeremy corbyn, though, is the front bencher rebecca long—bailey. so, what's needed ?ctions, because otherwise, we'lljust become an irrelevance, a pressure group. we do need to get somebody in the leadership who can unite the party, because it has been terribly divided. even down at local level. i'm not a big jeremy corbyn fan, but there are a lot of people out there who supported him and want his policies to continue. one direction is if we keep the status quo as we are, the electorate have stamped their foot and said, "listen, you need to listen to what we're saying." so, you're moving out? they all know the pain of defeat. we've got about a month left tojust wind everything up. labour lost by just 105 votes here in bury north. the former mp is adamant the next leader has to pass muster in marginal seats like this. "the labour party loves a good loser", somebody said that to me in a bid to console me following the election result. i think we need to be more brutal in our assessment of what matters to the electorate. i think we need to be more brutal in our assessment

is rebecca long—bailey to associated with jeremy corbyn? totally, she is the continuity candidate.leader of the labour party i fear it would be fatal for the party. i think it would be an absolute disaster. and we thornberry isa absolute disaster. and we thornberry is a good bit better but not much. —— emily thornberry. my worries about keir starmer is that he has spent the last four years on the front bench and all credit to him trying to bring the party into a present bull position on brek said but he spent so much of its time trying tojuggle the different but he spent so much of its time trying to juggle the different winds of the party and ijust wonder whether he is bold enough to go out there and strike a new direction for there and strike a new direction for the party which i think is absolutely what has to happen. because the labour party has to start talking to the country and not itself and if all the new labour leader is doing is trained to reconcile warring factions within the party and unity within the party is the most important thing rather than reaching out to the co

he's not the obvious corbyn candidate, because that is rebecca long—bailey, at the moment, and her campaignrbyn grassroots campaign who helped jeremy corbyn win the two leadership elections he won, they have said they will ballot their members on who to back, but, quite clearly, they want it to be rebecca long—bailey. they're recommending that that's who their members get behind and that will give her a big boost and, although keir starmer appears to be out in front at the moment, i would suggest, over the next three months before we get the next labour leader, there is a lot of room for movement in that race. when it gets going, when some of the more radical pro—corbyn groups start throwing their weight about, i suspect that will work well for rebecca long—bailey. there's other candidates as well. lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips as well. they'll all be looking to make up ground over the next few weeks. tens of thousands of independence supporters in scotland have been marching through the centre of glasgow. the organisers, all under one banner, say around 80 thousa

emily thornberry, back along payday, and may be others. —— rebecca long bailey.n over the weekend brought a brief respite, but hotter weather is again forecast, which is likely to make the fires worse. our correspondent shaima khalil has been to the coastal town of eden, south of canberra, where many have fled to escape the fires. the rain came as a welcome respite. people in the fire zones in southern and eastern australia finally got what they had wanted for weeks. a bit of a breather for these firefighters ahead of hotter weather to come, when officials said the blazes would take off again. the picture in the fishing town of eden is very different from that on the weekend. this is what it looked like on saturday night. many people left. others stayed, seeking safety by the water. eden wharf became a makeshift evacuation centre when the fires came close to this town. people came here, they sheltered in boats, in cars, and some in the open air to be close to the water. we have a lull in the weather. the temperatures and the winds have dropped, we have rain which

behind him, rebecca long—bailey seen as the other leading contender, in the ‘20s, as are the prominent struggling to make up phillips. still struggling to make up numbers, the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry saying yesterday she was confident she would get over the line, no doubt having last—minute conversations with her parliamentary colleagues to make sure she gets the required numbers by that deadline of 2:30pm. and clive lewis, if there is anyone who looks like he is in danger at this stage, it is him, the shadow treasury minister, just four nominations, one of whom is himself, for leadership of the labour party. he was asked this morning whether he was still confident he could make up numbers and he said he had faith in his colleagues. we will see how much faith they have in him when that deadline comes at 2:30pm and we will find out which candidates are going through to the next stage in this contest. at this stage, it is mps who get to decide. that changes in the later stages. as we have seen before everything can change at that point. there are three phases to this co

rebecca long—bailey and emily thornberry launching the campaign survey. , rebecca long—bailey is on the left, critics say she is continuityjeremy corbyn, she would say she is resenting a radical programme, deliver a seismic shift in the british state away from here at westminster, more power to local areas and to the regions. she also says she wants to get out of the gentleman scarp in britain's politics, perhaps a jibe at one of her challenges, —— emily thornberry perhaps not quite as popular amongst the left—wing membership as rebecca long—bailey. she struggled to get on a stage in the contest with the backing of fellow mps but she says she has the resilience and indeed the experience to take on boris johnson. she is battle hardened she says. but what is interesting is that tonight when emily thornberry launches, she will also point out she was as she puts it on the front line of opposing anti—abortion laws in northern ireland. we know that rebecca long—bailey for example in response to questions by the catholic church at the time of the election raise q