Politics blog + John McDonnell

• Wednesday 19 May 2010

• Ed Balls and John McDonnell launch Labour leadership bids - as it happened

  

  Ed Balls and John McDonnell. Photograph: David Levene, Fiona Hanson/PA

  Rolling coverage as two more contenders officially enter the race to become the next Labour leader

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  Posted by Andrew Sparrow 11.40 BST

• Wednesday 18 June 2008

• Confident Tories are cock-a-hoop

  Leftwing MP John McDonnell, the man who tried to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, is furious with him. Why? Because he has allowed David Cameron to steal a green march and declare his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow - which McDonnell has also opposed as a local MP. Continue reading...

  Posted by Michael White 08.49 BST

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