Lucy Powell has been appointed as the new deputy leader of the Labour Party, replacing Angela Rayner after she resigned amid a tax scandal.

Phillipson was seen as the government-favoured candidate, with Powell recently being kicked out of government in the reshuffle that came following Rayner’s departure.

The deputy leadership contest was triggered after Rayner stood down in September as deputy leader of the Labour Party, housing secretary and deputy prime minister, over a row about her tax affairs.

The prime minister’s ethics adviser found she had breached the ministerial code over whether she had paid enough stamp duty when buying a home in Brighton.

Powell succeeds Rayner as deputy leader of the Labour Party, a position directly elected by Labour’s members.

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