BURSTDeputy leadership candidate tells hustings party is not heeding feedback from doorstep, with impact on activists
Labour members feel “disconnected” from the government and risk losing motivation, Lucy Powell has argued as she and her rival for the party’s deputy leadership, Bridget Phillipson, answered questions at its annual conference.
Powell, who was sacked from the cabinet in a reshuffle last month, has presented herself as an independent “shop steward” for members, a balance to what she has called a sometimes isolated leadership.
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