Boris Johnson news: PM warns Trump over threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites, as Long Bailey handed Labour leadership boost
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Your support makes all the difference.Boris Johnson has warned Donald Trump against any attempt to target Iranian cultural sites – with the PM’s official spokesperson citing “international conventions” that prevent destruction of heritage.
It comes as Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) decided the rules for electing Jeremy Corbyn’s successor, and confirmed a new leader will be announced after a three-month long contest on 4 April.
Meanwhile Labour MP Angela Rayner, launching her own bid for the party’s deputy leadership, has said she is backing Rebecca Long Bailey for the leadership if her “friend” decides to join the contest.
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‘Tory scum’ spray-painted on MSP Annie Wells’ office
MSP Annie Wells has condemned vandalism at her constituency office after the words “Tory scum” were spray-painted on a wall.
Ms Wells said she would report the incident in Glasgow to police.
She tweeted a picture of the graffiti, sprayed in red paint on the wall of her office in Maryhill Road, adding: “Happy new year! A civic and joyous start to 2020 at our constituency office.”
Yvette Cooper announces she will not stand in Labour leadership race
Former minister Yvette Cooper has announced she will not stand in the contest to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
Ms Cooper declined to serve in Mr Corbyn’s frontbench team after coming third to him in the leadership election of 2015, but maintained a high profile in the House of Commons as chair of the influential home affairs committee.
A minister under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford MP was seen as a potential candidate for those seeking a return to the agenda of the New Labour years.
Rayner says Labour ‘must win or die’ as she enters deputy leadership race
Angela Rayner has said Labour faces the “biggest challenge in our history” to win back lost voters as she laid out her pitch to become the party’s deputy leader.
Once tipped as a possible successor to Jeremy Corbyn, the shadow education secretary instead threw her weight behind Rebecca Long Bailey for the top job as she confirmed her plans to stand for the deputy role.
Ms Rayner said Labour must “win or die” after its catastrophic election defeat in December, where Boris Johnson seized control of swathes of the party’s traditional heartlands in the north and the Midlands.
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