Shadow ministers to stand in new seats as leftwing Labour MPs deselected

Gerald Jones will fight Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon, and Alison McGovern Birkenhead, after constituency boundaries redrawn

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Tensions have flared within the Labour party as two members of Keir Starmer’s shadow ministerial team were pitted against junior leftwing MPs in battles to win the nomination for new parliamentary seats.

Gerald Jones, the shadow Welsh minister, won a selection contest for the new seat of Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon on Wednesday against Beth Winter, an MP from the leftwing Socialist Campaign group.