response to developments in iraq. the shadow business secretary, rebecca long—bailey, has become the sixth candidate in the race to become the next labour leader. she said the party needed a proud socialist to succeed jeremy corbyn and stay true to his radical vision. she joins sir keir starmer, emily thornberry, clive lewis, lisa nandy and jess phillips in the contest. nominations for the three—month contest formally open today and the result will be announced on ath april. a convicted murderer serving a life sentence has revealed how he helped restrain the london bridge terrorist attacker, usman khan. steve gallant — pictured here with one of the victims of the attack, jack merritt, whom he worked with on training courses and described as a friend — has spoken publically for the first time about tackling khan, after his knife attack on prisoner rehabilitation conference last november. steve gallant was out on licence to attend the event and is serving a minimum of 17 years for killing ex—firefighter barrie jackson in hull 15 years ago. the chancellor, sajid javid, is to del

rebecca long—bailey?” what are you offering that they can't, or rebecca long-bailey? i can wina can't, or rebecca long-bailey? i can win a general election. and they can't? i am setting out what i believe is the key reason colleagues, many of whom have spoken to me and encouraged me to stand, have said... how are you so confident you could win a general election against boris johnson?” believe i have the ability to communicate, bring back the dynamism of debate that is necessary. i believe all of my colleagues standing are eminently capable, eminently capable of being a better prime minister than boris johnson, but the key thing is, we have to win the keys to downing street, we have to become a labour government, we have to stop talking to ourselves and start talking to the country. final chance before i say goodbye to you in abu dhabi to announce you are standing for the leadership of the labour party. i am here in abu dhabi because i care passionately about climate change, i have worked on it... did you fly there? yes, of course. that is not good. it will be offset. we are looking

selection. because your, one of your rivals, the shadow is the secretary rebecca long—bailey said the last labour manifesto was fantastic, one of the greatest offerings labour have ever had. you said in a newspaper interview yesterday you loved it, it was brilliant, it was like a fantasy football manifesto. that suggests that you not listening to those lifelong labour voters. when you look at the scale of what confronts us, in the climate crisis, for example, when you look at the levels of inequality in this country and homelessness, there is nothing short of their of a radical ma nifesto short of their of a radical manifesto which was going to change that. i will explain why. every single policy in that document individually i think would have made this country a better place to live. why do you think you suffered their worst electoral defeat since 1935? not simply because of the manifesto. in terms of the manifesto, we should not have dropped, we needed radical policy change in this country, we should not have dropped that in a six—week period. this should have happened over a 2—3 ye

have many minutes left. what do you think will happen to the labour party if rebecca long bailey wins the leadership contest?” labour party if rebecca long bailey wins the leadership contest? i don't think any leadership candidate can't succeed in turning things around the labour party unless they acknowledge the scale of the defeat and the scale of the failures. but if she wins? i don't think she has acknowledge those things at all and thatis acknowledge those things at all and that is a huge problem, even acknowledging them is not the answer because then you've got to do something about it. labour has got to be for patriotism, security, jobs for all, uniting the towns and cities. if she wins could labour ' ? cities. if she wins could labour split? well, there are really good reasons why our main political parties don't split because in a first past the post system, when a main party carries history and tradition, the conservatives looked pretty split for the last 15 years but they didn't split, labour has looked split but if it doesn't acknowledge those problems and turn things ar