Jess Phillips came third in a poll of Labour members about who should succeed Jeremy Corbyn Times photographer richard pohleJess Phillips is expected to announce that she will join the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. The Birmingham Yardley MP, an outspoken critic of the current leadership, called on her party to “try something different” in the wake of its election defeat last month. This week she came third in a poll that asked Labour members who they want to be next leader, behind the frontrunners Rebecca Long Bailey and Sir Keir Starmer but ahead of candidates who have already declared they are running, including Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit Secretary, is also set to confirm he will stand for the Labour leadership. On Wednesday Ms Phillips tweeted that she had “woken up with an absolute cob on about…

Source: The Times January 03, 2020 17:03 UTC