{"id":4511,"date":"2015-05-25T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2015-05-25T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:47:19","slug":"rushanara-ali-targets-ukip-in-labour-deputy-leader-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/rushanara-ali-targets-ukip-in-labour-deputy-leader-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Rushanara Ali targets UKIP in Labour deputy leader race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rushnara<\/a>Rushanara Ali is entering the contest to be deputy Labour leader, with a pledge to target former supporters who have switched to UKIP.
\nShe becomes the sixth Labour MP to declare that they want to succeed Harriet Harman in post.
\nMs Ali told 5 live\u2019s Pienaar\u2019s Politics: \u201cWe should be radical and imaginative. What have we got to lose?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m going to start with going after UKIP voters who left Labour. We have to talk to people who rejected us.\u201d
\nAsked how that would work with voters who have problems with multi-culturalism, she said: \u201cI grew up in a working-class community. Some of my neighbours were not very friendly.
\n\u201cI\u2019m used to rejection so I think I have something to offer\u2026 I know what it feels like to be an outsider trying to get in\u2026 I think a lot of our voters feel like that \u2013 that they just couldn\u2019t get through to us.\u201d
\nAsked who she would back for leader, Ms Ali says: \u201cI\u2019m going to meet every single one of them. I will reserve my right to use my nomination powers to help someone struggling in the race get what they need to stand.\u201d
\nShe says Keith Vaz and Tristram Hunt are two MPs who have said they would back her bid.
\nThe other declared candidates for deputy leader are Stella Creasy, Tom Watson, Ben Bradshaw, Angela Eagle and Caroline Flint.
\nThe candidates for Labour leader are Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Mary Creagh and Liz Kendall.
\nEarlier on Sunday former deputy Labour leader Lord Prescott told the Sunday Mirror he would be backing Andy Burnham for leader.
\nAnd Harriet Harman told the Andrew Marr Show that the leadership contests must not just be about who the best leader was, but what direction the party should take.
\nShe said it would be \u201cquite wrong\u201d for Labour to \u201cminimise the scale of our defeat\u201d, especially given that it came despite a \u201clack of love for the Tories\u201d.
\nMs Harman also said she thought that either the leader or deputy leader positions must be filled by a woman, saying she had never been a fan of all-male leadership teams.
\nShe also said that hundreds of thousands of people who voted Labour \u201cbut would never join the party\u201d would be able to vote in the leader and deputy leader elections \u2013 something welcomed on the same programme by former David Cameron adviser Steve Hilton.
\nMr Hilton, who added that he had been a long-time fan of Ms Harman\u2019s work on gender equality, said it was important to get more people involved in politics. -BBC<\/p>\n

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