🏛️ Politics 3h ago · Ailbhe Rea

Is it time for Labour’s first female leader?

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Labour has never, in its 126-year history, had a woman leader. The Conservatives are on their fourth elected female leader, and Labour hasn’t managed one. And it’s happening again, as the party changes leader in slow motion. For all of the insistence since Keir Starmer’s election that next time it will have to be a woman, the shadow contest is emerging, and the frontrunner (Andy Burnham), the other challenger (Wes Streeting), the incumbent (Starmer) and the wild card (Al Carns) are men. In exasp

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