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The shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, has announced to join the race to be Labour’s next leader as he stressed upon his belief that Labour party can win power in five years’ time. Umunna stated that “I want to lead that effort as part of a really big Labour team, getting Labour back into office.”
Mr Umunna announced the news in a video posted to his Facebook page ahead of a Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) tomorrow that will draw up a timetable for the contest to succeed Ed Miliband. Shadow health minister, Liz Kendall, was the first to announce her candidacy. According to Umunna, he refrained from making the announcement because he was visiting defeated candidates. The video showed him standing alongside defeated candidate Mark Dempsey from Swisdon, who he said was one of dozens of thwarted would-be MPs in key target seats to whom he had spoken in the days since the election.
In his remarks, Mr Umunna stated that “of the 80 Conservative seats we were targeting, we made a net gain of just four last Thursday. We have got to do better than that if we are to win next time.” He stressed that “we can and we should be winning in seats like Swindon. North, south, east, west – we can absolutely do it as a party. Some have actually suggested over the last few days that this is now a 10-year project to get the Labour party back into office. I don’t think we can have any truck with that at all.”
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