DON'T BOX HER IN

STARMER is gagging Bridget Phillipson and tying one of her arms behind her back unless he allows the Education Secretary to speak freely in Labour's deputy leadership contest with sacked House of Commons leader Lucy Powell.

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Let the best woman win. No unbridgeable ideological rifts exist in the quick race to acquire Angela Rayner's old party role yet imposing numbing collective responsibility on Phillipson, insisting she parrots the Cabinet o