Manchester MP Lucy Powell will fight it out with a cabinet minister in a bid to become the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Former frontbencher Ms Powell has earned enough nominations to make it through to the next round of the contest, it was confirmed tonight.

The Manchester Central MP will now go head-to-head with the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson for the role.

Backbencher Bell Ribeiro-Addy was knocked out of the race after she failed to get the 80 nominations from Labour MPs required to advance to the next stage.

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Ms Phillipson picked up 175 nominations, Ms Powell 117 and Ms Ribeiro-Addy 24, according to the final tally after Thursday's 5pm deadline.

The three other MPs who had initially thrown their hat in

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