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Brexit news - live: Tories considering changing leadership rules amid 'chaos' as 12th candidate enters race

Labour 'complicit' in Boris Johnson becoming Prime Minister with incoherent Brexit position, says Alistair Campbell

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The Conservatives are considering a review of their leadership contest rules after the 12th candidate entered the race to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.

Nigel Evans, executive secretary of the 1922 Committee, warned the field could swell to as many as 20 as Mark Harper, the former chief whip, announced his intention to stand.

Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn was facing increasing pressure over Labour party policy on Brexit as former spin doctor Alastair Campbell described it as “bonkers”.

This live blog has now closed, but you can see Friday's events below

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Jeremy Corbyn has so far resisted pressure to start campaigning for a Final Say vote on Brexit, presumably with an option to Remain.

Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, has backed the existing policy and warned that it would be "electorally suicidal" to contemplate cancelling Brexit.

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 10:45
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Eight out of the 12 Conservative leadership candidates have described themselves as feminists, following Dominic Raab's comments that he was "probably not".

Esther McVey, Kit Malthouse and Mark Harper have so far not answered, or been asked, the question.

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 10:50
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Andy Wigmore, the prominent Brexit campaigner who likes to hang around with Nigel Farage and Arron Banks, has been accused of racially abusing Remain campaigner Femi Oluwole on Twitter by saying he looks like Diane Abbott.

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 10:53
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Peter Stubley31 May 2019 10:54
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Bad news for fans of political mud-slinging... Three of the Conservative leadership candidates have signed up to a "Clean Campaign Pledge".

Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Sajid Javid have all vowed not to speak ill of their fellow Conservatives or "engage in personality attacks".

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 10:58
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YouGov have responded to complaints that their latest poll was rigged against Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, stating that putting them and other small parties in the "other" category gave more accurate results.

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 11:02
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“I am sick to death of Brexit,“ Elton John said at a concert in Verona. ”I am a European. I am not a stupid, colonial, imperialist English idiot.”

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 11:06
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Labour MPs have demanded the expulsion of a member of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee after a recording emerged of him blaming antisemitism allegations on the Israeli Embassy.

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 11:08
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Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, says Pete Willsman should be suspended immediately.

The fact that a member of Labour's governing body feels he can continue to make such offensive remarks after being warned for similar outbursts previously shows how serious the problem of antisemitism is in our party.

The general secretary must make good on the promise that was made following Mr Willsman's previous outburst that he would face disciplinary action if he engaged in similar conduct again.

He must be suspended from the NEC and from party membership immediately.

Peter Stubley31 May 2019 11:15
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Peter Stubley31 May 2019 11:24

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