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Yvette Cooper announces candidacy for Labour leadership
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 15, 2015 03:15pm |
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| Author | Press Association |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced that she is standing for the Labour leadership. She joins the contest alongside Chuka Umunna, Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham, who also announced his candidacy on Wednesday.
In an article for the Daily Mirror, Cooper pledged to make life better for families as she declared her bid to replace Ed Miliband, with the new leader to be announced at a special conference on 12 September.
Following last week’s defeat, Cooper said the party had not given voters enough hope going into the general election. The former work and pensions secretary rejected calls to “go back to the remedies of the past” that worked for former prime minister Tony Blair. She said she wanted Labour to “move beyond the old labels of left and right” and be “credible, compassionate, creative and connected to the day-to-day realities of life”.
She wrote: “In the end, Labour didn’t convince enough people that we had the answers. They liked a lot of what we had to say, about raising the minimum wage, expanding childcare, cutting tax for low-paid workers and banning bad zero-hours contracts. But for many people it wasn’t enough to give them hope and confidence we could match all their ambitions for the future. And when there’s too little hope, optimism or confidence, the politics of anger, fear and division takes over – that’s what the Tories, the SNP and Ukip all exploited and campaigned on in this election. |
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