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The two candidates vying to be Labour’s next deputy leaders are beginning their final week of campaigning before the polls in the contest close.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has vowed to reduce child poverty and warned that not voting for her will result in “internal debate and divisions that leads us back to opposition”.

Lucy Powell, the Manchester Central MP and former Government minister, said she would offer a “strong, independent voice at the top” in what could be Labour members’ last chance to change the party’s course before the next general election.

The deputy leadership contest was triggered after Angela Rayner stood down over a row over her tax affairs.

Results will be announced on Saturday, October 25.