Liz Kendall
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Elizabeth Louise Kendall is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2024 to 2025 and as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology from 2025 to
Official portrait, 2024
Kendall before a 2015 Labour Party leadership election meeting in Bristol
Kendall on a People's march for the NHS in 2014
The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband as Leader of the Labour Party on 8 May 2015, following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. Harrie
Liz Kendall
…role as Shadow Minister for Care and Older People under Ed Miliband. Following Labour's defeat at the 2015 general election, she stood in the leadership election to replace Miliband, but finished in last place, behind Jeremy Corbyn. She subsequently returned to the backbenches and supported Owen Smith in a failed…
Jeremy Corbyn, 2016 Labour Party Conference 5
Andy Burnham, 2016 Labour Party Conference 1
Yvette Cooper, 2016 Labour Party Conference 3