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WATCH NOW: In this exciting new LabourList strand our international columnist Muddassar Ahmed interviews Dr Mbongiseni Buthelezi, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation about the worldwide populist challenge to progressive politics and what it means for Labour.

🚨 ATTN. New Jersey: We can do SO much better than Mikie Sherrill. She voted against the child tax credit… She voted for tax hikes… She voted to give your money to illegals… Reject her on Nov. 4th.

@BenInRushcliffe @LabourList We don’t know the result of what we and others polled on Ben - the votes of Labour members. See thread from @charliemansell - most likely Labour members were more positive on Powell than affiliates. We might have actually been too low on Powell in the end.

Labour has a new deputy leader, but what does the result mean for Powell, the Party and the PM? Our editor @EmmaBurnell_ has a 'must read' analysis of the result.

🌹 BREAKING: Lucy Powell Elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party with 54.3% of the vote. https://t.co/QjEXKFu1Gr

The Tony Blair Institute presents a false choice between affordability and ambition when it comes to clean cheap energy, writes Ben Carter of @serauk. https://t.co/IZXrEFGNnN

🥀 After Labour's disastrous result in Caerphilly, is anywhere safe? @tom_belger visits the Merseyside seat Widnes and Halewood, where the party faces headwinds from Reform, the Greens and Your Party

🗳️New: My report on the ground from Labour's 10th safest seat. 🔷@PLMRLtd MRP puts Reform in the lead. 🌹Once-Corbynite council chief reveals his Reform defection. 🟩 Greens on the march too. 📉Labour' lead across 10 safest seats just 4pp vs Reform. Piece on @LabourList 👇

Labour has placed third in the Caerphilly by-election, with Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle beating Reform UK by around 4,000 votes

As polling closes in the deputy leadership election, LabourList's final poll gives Lucy Powell a commanding but narrower lead over Bridget Phillipson

"Voters have always used the lens of local examples to identify improvement – or more commonly – decline in the public realm." https://t.co/rba5FhahyN

Read Lucy Powell's final message to members as polls close today for the deputy leadership contest. https://t.co/sMpTHoeZ3O

"When you make a mistake, you take responsibility" Labour MPs praise Angela Rayner after her resignation speech in the House of Commons

Read Bridget Phillipson's final message to members as the race to become Labour's deputy leader closes tomorrow.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌹 "I’m standing in this Caerphilly Senedd by-election because I don’t want my home being used as a pawn in political games. I want to get stuff done, just like Hefin did." Labour's Caerphilly by-election candidate @RichCaerphilly on why his town deserves delivery, not

When asked to pick only one progressive policy for government to enact, one in five Labour members called for a wealth tax on the top one percent of earners

Arnold announced she had not been shortlisted by the party for the final ballot by members

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⛪️ "Some objections will be more innocent, but the abiding concern of these men is almost always the imagined effacement of white identity." ✍️ @Jonathan4MD reflects on the Canterbury Cathedral graffiti backlash: https://t.co/aNZ7LCDaSN

💻 "Let’s be clear: Farage is no champion of free expression. His record is one of seeking to delegitimise the voices he doesn’t like, from migrants to LGBTQ+ people to political opponents." ✍️ Edinburgh South West MP @DrScottArthurMP https://t.co/eU0Iag6KSm

🌹 Is running for deputy leader worth it? LabourList spoke to over a dozen candidates or campaign teams past and present to unpick the intriguing, varied reasons candidates actually run – and why so many more don’t.