Jon Trickett MP, Labour’s Election Co-ordinator, responding to the withdrawal of Andrea Leadsom from the Conservative leadership contest, said:

“It now looks likely that we are about to have the coronation of a new Conservative Prime Minister.

“It is crucial,  given the instability caused by the Brexit vote,  that the country has a democratically elected Prime Minister. I am now putting the whole of the party on a General Election footing. It is time for the Labour Party to unite and ensure the millions of people in the country left behind by the Tories’ failed economic policies, have the opportunity to elect a Labour government”.  

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