Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership heir Rebecca Long-Bailey heading for humiliating ‘third-place finish’
REBECCA Long-Bailey is heading for a shock third place finish in the party’s leadership race, it has been claimed.
The “Corbyn continuity candidate” is said to be trailing behind rivals Lisa Nandy and the clear favourite Sir Keir Starmer.
According to the , a private survey of those voting in the leadership race has her finishing in last place.
The claims come shortly after Ms Long-Bailey offered the disastrous former leader a job on her frontbench.
A party source said: “It may be that Keir’s Leftie bank manager-style campaign is unstoppable, but it’s embarrassing for Long Bailey if she can’t beat Nandy given all the advantages she had.
“She’s been Corbyn’s anointed heir for years but it looks as though she’s blown that.”
The paper reports things are going so badly she's now even being shunned by her own flatmate, deputy leadership candidate Angela Rayner.
She is said to be cutting back on appearances with Ms Long Bailey over her floundering campaign.
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The result will raise hopes in the Nandy camp that she could be the eventual victor by coming a close second to Sir Keir.
This could see the town-obsessive triumph by and then picking up enough “second preference” votes to win.
Ms Long Bailey’s campaign deny she is in third place, insisting the far-left candidate is actually closing in on Sir Keir in first.
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