Bristol MP Darren Jones is seen by some within Britain's Labour Party as a future UK prime minister. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Labour’s crushing defeat this week in a Senedd byelection in the south Wales valleys town of Caerphilly – it finished a distant third in its former bastion behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK – has cranked up the heat again on UK prime minister Keir Starmer.
The temperature may get a few degrees hotter on Saturday, if Lucy Powell meets expectations and is chosen as Labour’s deputy leader to replace Angela Rayner. Starmer sacked Powell as Commons leader only last month, while his Downing Street operation subsequently tried and failed to keep her out of the deputy leadership race.
Now, barring a surprise win by education secretary Bridget
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