Labour MP Catherine West today accelerated her campaign to move out of the ‘random backbencher’ club and towards becoming a household name. The Aussie-born left-winger sent shockwaves through Westminster over the weekend after seemingly out of knowing threatening to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the Labour crown.

While she stopped short of doing exactly that this afternoon, Wild West appeared to nail her colours to Andy Burnham’s mast as she kickstarted the process of an old-fashioned joint letter demanding an ‘orderly........

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