LONDON - Britain's opposition Labour Party needs a new leader after veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn said he would step down following his party's heavy election defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives.
Thornberry joined the Labour Party when she was 17, saying she was motivated by her experience of being raised by a single mother in social housing. She went on to become a human rights barrister.Announcing his plan to run for leader, Lewis, 48, said he believed the party's members needed to have a greater say over selecting candidates and determining policy.
The youngest of four children, Phillips grew up in a Labour-supporting working class household and was given membership of the party for her 14th birthday. It was a childhood ambition of hers to become prime minister. She resigned as Labour's policy chief for energy in 2016, one of several so-called"shadow ministers" who left their posts in protest against leader Corbyn."He is unable to form a broad, inclusive shadow cabinet that draws on the best of our movement's left and right traditions," she wrote at the time.
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