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Former shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy, who resigned from the Labour frontbench team in June, is backing Owen Smith for the Labour leadership.

She said he was 鈥渂est placed to win the leadership election鈥�, and was the candidate most capable of uniting both the party and the nation.

Speaking of Jeremy Corbyn, she said: "I can't see any way that I would serve on his frontbench again."

Conservative MP Nicholas Soames said the country needed an "effective opposition holding the government to account on the floor of the House of Commons".