bailey is very persuasive. he arrived in iowa friday hours ford spent 24 the endorsement of elizabeth. i think bailey is a natural closer. that is also what elizabeth is counting on you to do. no one has to tell you how important the next few days are or how important the caucuses are on monday. 2020 is the most consequential election in my lifetime. it will be the last chance we have to try to get the country rebuilding the government that works for everyone and not just for the folks who can afford to influence it. has beenign grassroots. she knew from her experience that the way you get things done ,s to do an inside-outside game from her position as chair of the congressional oversight panel and pushing for the consumer financial bureau, getting groups outside involved, grassrootsg the movement for change. that is what she knew she had to do this time, and that is what she has been doing. ,his is built on face-to-face over 100,000 selfies at her town people likelt on all of you in this room and in rooms acr

bailey is very persuasive. he arrived in iowa friday evening and spent 24 hours for the endorsement of -- within 24 hours, the demin - alex is register had come out for ebusiness eth. causation, correlation, you be the judge. i think bailey is a natural closer. that is also what elizabeth is counting on you to do. no one has to tell you how important the next few days are or how important the caucuses are on monday. 2020 is the most consequential election in my lifetime. hours,e t will be the last chance we have to try to get the country back, and start rebuilding the government that works for everyone and not just for the folks who can afford to influence it. the campaign has been rassroots. she knew from her experience that the way you get things done is to do an inside-outside game, from her position as chair of the congressional oversight panel and pushing for the consumer financial bureau, getting groups outside involved, and building the grassroots movement for change. that is what she knew she had to do

bailey is happy to be here. bailey is happy to be everywhere. as long as people are willing to pay him. he particularly likes cold weather and snow. he is really happy. folks and iowa have been asking for months. where is -- when will we see bailey? they figured only folks in new hampshire get to see him. we said no, he does not fly commercial. [laughter] at the end of last week, our son and his wife, he is here somewhere. to take a road trip and bring bailey out. [laughter] bailey is very persuasive. he arrived in iowa on friday evening and within 24 hours, the des moines register ahead endorsed elizabeth. i think bailey is a national -- natural closer. this is what elizabeth is counting on all of you to do. has to tell you how important the next few days are or how important the caucuses are on monday. the 2020 is the most consequential election of my lifetime. it will be the last chance we have to try to get the country back. and to start rebuilding a government. that works for everyone and not just the folks who can afford to influence it. t

rebecca long— bailey rebecca long—bailey is notjeremy corbyn. she is a different type of individual. 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

nomination for rebecca long bailey, they are just finishing up long bailey, they are just finishing up their meeting at the moment. so asi up their meeting at the moment. so as i say, we will know very shortly. why does it matter? two reasons. firstly, it's one of their biggest labour donors so getting their endorsement will be seen as a big boost both financially and politically. for whoever gets their backing. secondly, for rebecca long bailey, if she does get that nomination, as we expect, it puts or within touching distance of the final ballot. the labour process is pretty complicated, you need to get enough mps backing at the first time of asking, the second hurdle is to get the backing of a couple of unions and an affiliate group, or lots of local parties. so far, kier starmer, lisa nandy are definitely on the ballots. so far, rebecca long bailey is just on the ballots. so far, rebecca long bailey isjust short on the ballots. so far, rebecca long bailey is just short of it. in fact, i think mccluskey will come out and tell us know who they are backing. ina tell us know who the

rebecca long—bailey will get the left. keir starmer will get any remainers and those who think the party will be managed better. jess phillips is a straight talker. lisa is from the north and someone who can appeal to those labour heartlands that abandoned the party at the general election. nevertheless, emily thornberry is still out knocking on doors in a metaphorical sense, hitting telephones to persuade her colleagues. this is what she told andrew marr earlier on her prospects of getting to the line. 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 party members, they wanted to go to the hustings, and think about this, because obviously it is a very important decision. but from the conversations i have had this weekend, i am fairly confident that as long as we don't get any slippage, i will be fine. i will get across the line, and, you know, t

as i say, keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey who we are about to hear from rebecca long—bailey who we are about to hearfrom 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 aimin

if you go for rebecca long—bailey, it is more oi’ for rebecca long—bailey, it is more or less, more left, more left. five defeats in a 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

he's due to go on trial in march. 0ur correspondent daniela relph is at the old bailey. bring us up to date with what has happened there. 18—year—old henry long from near reading appeared before a judge via a video link from a belmarsh prison, where he is in custody. and it was put to him, and ask for his plate, the manslaughter charge against pc andrew harper from august last year. when the charge was put to henry long, his reply was, i plead guilty, guilty. ithink we all remember the death of andrew harper last august. there was an outpouring of public grief after his death, and very emotional statements from his new wife as well. he had been married just four weeks before his death. he had been called to reports of a break—in at a property in berkshire, close to reading, when he was there, there was some kind of incident involving a vehicle, where he appeared to get trapped under the vehicle and dragged along. it is alleged that henry long was the driver of that vehicle. but he had pleaded guilty today, to the manslaughter of andrew harper. but it is very import

early this evening, rebecca long—bailey set out her pitch to the membership in manchester. she promised to 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 r

you will see the left of the party really get behind rebecca long—bailey in the next few weeks. the grassroots group who helped jeremy corbyn win, they are hoping 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

the old bailey in march. thank you. rebecca long—bailey has become the sixth candidate to join the race to succeed jeremy corbyn as labour leader. the result of the contest will be announced at a special conference on 4 april. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith is in westminster. she had been expected tojoin she had been expected to join the race? she had come a long time ally ofjeremy corbyn but today firmly positioned herself as the carry on jeremy corbyn candidate going out of her way to defend his leadership, unswervingly backing his policy saying she not only believed in them but had written many of them, she left his predecessors like ed miliband as tory light, she echoed some of his radical rhetoric, talking about turning the labour party into an insurgency, resisting the tories, honestly, she couldn't have done much more if she'd sung jeremy corbyn! this was her rebuffing the idea that mr corbyn wasn't in any way to blame for the election defeat. any leader who leads us into a general elect

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 will be on the final ballot that is sent out to members. she willjoin lisa nandy and sir keir starmer who have already reached the threshold needed to get there. emily thornberry, though, the fourth candidate left, still struggling to get enough support, we will see if she manages to do that in the coming days, but this is a pretty long process, the labour leadership contest, and we won't know who is going to take over

in the last hour, rebecca long—bailey has set out her pitch to the party's membership. she's 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 surpri

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curry, misses bailey pointed out some reasons for the austere conditions. do you feel that that is a full explanation for the low morale challenges? >> no way. there are a lot of agencies across government that have extremely difficult missions under under intense public and congressional scrutiny. it's not enough just to chalk the reasons out to that. what we see in the root cause analysis, and in the responses to the survey is there are a lot of core management issues that come in play here. things that all of us want in the workplace that we come to every day. do i trust my supervisor? does management communicate with me? do i understand how i'm rated? our other employees held accountable? these are core management issues that all agencies, private and public face. i think dhs is made a lot of progress over the years maturing as a department. but where they are with the scores now show we still have a long way to go. >> mr. steyer, anything to add? >> i think the real issue again is leadership. we see it in our research that about two thirds of the emplo

so far, six candidates have joined the race: rebecca long—bailey, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandy, jess phillips and sir keir starmer. registered supporters who are not full party members will have 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 m

rebecca long bailey is seen as the closest candidate to outgoing leaderjeremy corbyn. the other front runner is sir keir starmer, who also called for unity. we've had far too much division. i think the whole of the party wants to be united. they want to come together, so we have to end factionalism. stop asking the question, which bit of the party you from? and start saying, what are you saying? what i saw in the election, and i went to 44 constituencies, was the big teams of labour supporters out there drawing together, putting their differences aside. the candidates were also quizzed on their position on brexit, which is seen by some as a reason why labour lost many of its northern seats. the wigan mp, lisa nandi, who opposed another referendum, said the party had airbrushed complexities about brexit. my leave—voting constituents, are no more racist little englanders than my friends who voted to remain our liberal elitist, and we should never allow the tories to do that, to divide us, young against old. birmingham'sjess phillips also said the party needed to bring

he was very strong in his endorsement of rebecca long—bailey this morning. rebecca 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 n

so far, six candidates havejoined the race — rebecca long bailey, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandy, jess phillips, and sir keir starmer. registered supporters, who are not full party members, will have 48 hours from 14—16 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. 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 anymore. 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.

rebecca lon bailey is 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, but 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 where the candidates are trying to get the backing of trade unions, like unite, and affiliated groups so they can ultimately make it onto the ballot. this endorsement from unite effectively means that rebecca long bailey is pretty much there. we expect her to get the support she needs in the next few days. keir starmer is also there. so all eyes in the next couple of weeks are on emily thornbury, the fourth

today rebecca long—bailey began talking, at the moment, she has had a difficult start to her campaign. the problems she has, the challenge, she has been described as 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

one more name we are waiting on, rebecca long bailey, seen waiting on, rebecca long bailey, seen as waiting on, rebecca long bailey, seen as corbyn's favourite. 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

sir keir starmer, rebecca long bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations, leaving emily thornberry and clive lewis lobbying to get 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 dec

, more on the left. party at the stage and rebecca long-bailey, more on the left. thank you. i would like to talk about this for a lot longer but we have a very, very important story we have to get to. all of it. we cannot miss this last story. but one of christian's questions went on so long we had to stop. one of the great survivors of the australian bushfires is the "drop bear". a close cousin of the koala, it is seldom seen, but very dangerous around humans, dropping from trees without warning. it has sharp claws and a vicious temper. so when itn reporter debi edward was told she'd be meeting a ‘drop bear‘ while reporting from australia's kangaroo island — all necessary precautions were taken. at the moment ok because there's nothing near me but it is a bit like a batman suit so i'm a bit worried as to why i need this level of protection. right arm. suited and booted, ready for the battle. good of the australian crew to help her out. so let's see how she gets on. i have just been i havejust been handed it, i had to put on this protection gear because of w

long-bailey. four candidates have to go through on the back of enough mps and they also need 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

rebecca long bailey, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandy, jess phillips, and sir keir starmer. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have a8 hours from 1a—16 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 2 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 party must unite. he 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 mani

rebecca long bailey is talking to people about what they think went wrong. she is quite a way behind, kier starmer has 68 mp supporting him 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 th

as expected, rebecca long—bailey is in the race. what would you say are her strengths and weaknesses? her big plus from 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 la

emily thornberry and rebecca long—bailey are yet to reach the threshold. jess phillips quit the race yesterday and said her first 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

i have got to say, though, rebecca long—bailey is the favourite candidate of the left. there is a good chance that when this campaign actually gets going, and when 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 m

the five other candidates standing are rebecca long bailey, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandy and jess phillips. registered supporters — who are not full party members — will have 48 hours from 14—16 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. our political correspondent tony bonsignorejoins me now. a lot happening this afternoon and we can start with the front runner keir starmer. he is in manchester today, the mechanics institute, the birthplace of the trade union congress, and that gives you a clue of the message he is telling his supporters and is trying to push out to voters which is, forget what you might have heard, that i‘m a centrist candidate, nonsense, he says, i want to continue with many of the radical policies we have seen over the last three years, under jeremy corbyn, and that has been the message of his campaign so far. it is important because ultimately it will be the members who choose the next labour leader and it is thought many of tho

sir keir starmer, rebecca long bailey, jess phillips and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations — leaving emily thornberry and clive 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 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 rebecc

shejoinsjess phillips, sir keir starmer, lisa nandy and rebecca long bailey — who'd already got the backing of 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.

i think the person lagging behind is rebecca long—bailey. thought to be the favourite because she's the most corbyn standing. she is the continuity candidate. comes out the party don't really want continuity with corbyn. they want a chance of when he the next election. you will correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm sure you have set if rebecca long—bailey was picked, it would see the demise of the party. is that right? why would you have said that? i think if rebecca long—bailey is the party leader, that is the end for the labour party. it's because the party went left with ed miliband and lost the election, went further left with jeremy corbyn and lost an election went even further left with the 2019 manifesto and lost disastrously, our worst results in 2000, since 1935. if you go for rebecca long—bailey, it is more left, more left him a more left, five defeats in a row a consequent of that. it would be harsh to beat —— a harsh defeat. you get rebecca long bailey come in no chance of change. i would say labour has rejected them. you me

he is not the obviousjeremy corbyn candidate, because that is rebecca long bailey, but her campaign is struggling to get off the ground. momentum is the pro—jeremy corbyn grassroots campaign who helped 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 a

what is it you like about rebecca long—bailey? it is the policies. she knows her stuff about 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

they are companion device for people, samsung launched in the last couple of hours there bailey product which is --it of hours there bailey product which is ——it looks like an acute example ofa is ——it looks like an acute example of a robot. beyond that, it's more of a robot. beyond that, it's more of the same. a lot of smart stuff, a lot of it is quite finicky but there's a lot of spots home start either. tells about apple. they haven't been at these expos since 1992. it's an awful long time. by so long and by the return now?” 1992. it's an awful long time. by so long and by the return now? i think they were in a very different place 110w they were in a very different place now is a business. they have an incredible wealth from the mobile room, just as samsung have done well. the mobile industry is not going anymore and it's pretty clear it is not obvious what electronics category could really drive that next level of growth. so all companies are focusing on developing the smart home and are looking at developing automotive as i mentioned, also work opportunities as well as o

so front runners are keir starmer and rebecca long bailey. the person the 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 tr

so that news just into us here at the bbc, that the shadow business secretary rebecca long bailey has announced she is standing for the labour party leadership. stay with 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 count

rebecca long bailey will be in one way or another. the person really struggling at the moment is emily thornbury. she has a lot of work to do if she is going to get through to the last round. 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 fro

miss bailey, you -- did you take the survey? >> yes. >> the first question on the survey says would you recommend your organization as a good place to work ? >> absolutely. >> the second question is considering everything how satisfied you with your job. very satisfied, neither satisfied, dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. >> very satisfied. >> how satisfied are you with your organization? >> very satisfied. >> why do you think your responses are so very different than those of your colleagues in your department where you work in your part of the organization given that it ranked so low? any idea? >> one part of this is that i think my scores are reflective of many employees in dhs. you have uscis, coast guard who have some of the highest ranking component scores. you have secret service that's gone up 15 points. >> i'm asking specifically about dhs's management director which houses the office of human capital officer. is that where you work? >> yes. >> it's ranked in the bottom 25% of federal offices and employee morale decrea

the latest to declare, rebecca long bailey. she had been to is someone likely to stand unlikely to do that a platform of carrying on thejeremy corbyn levitt —— legacy if you like. it certainly seems that is what she is doing. she didn't want 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.

sir keir starmer, rebecca long—bailey and lisa nandy have the required number of nominations — leaving emily thornberry and clive 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 n

but rebecca along bailey is the favourite candidate of the left. there is a good chance that when this campaign gets going and when some of the pressure groups stop lobbying for particular candidates, she will pick up a lot of background as well. in terms of people who we think will definitely get through than next phase tomorrow, who we know will get through the next phase tomorrow, lisa nandy and jess phillips will be passed that as well, so here starmer and rebecca as well. it is proving hard at the moment for clive lewis in particular. he only has the backing of four mps of 22 to get through. emily thornberry only has ten as well. she spoke to andrew marr earlier and said she was confident. can you do it? i think so. we have only had a week to get nominations in. there are a large number of mps who have not nominated yet. they wanted to speak to party members and go to hustings and think about this because it is a really important decision, but from the conversations i have had this weekend, i am fairly confident that as long as i do not have a