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I am so proud to be launching my campaign to be Labour leader and the next Labour Prime Minister in my home town of Pontypridd.

It would be the greatest honour imaginable to lead the party I love.

Yet we all know this is a worrying time for Labour.

If we don’t pull together, unite and start acting like a proper team we are at risk of falling apart.

I will not stand by and watch that happen.

We haven’t a moment to lose, because the bunch of hardliners the new Prime Minister has put in government will try to use Brexit as an excuse for slashing workers’ rights and forcing through even more cuts.

Only a strong, united and competent Labour Party can stop that happening and start leading us back to power.

I am part of a new generation of Labour women and men who must now step up to secure Labour’s future.

I have the big ideas that the party and the whole country can get behind. So on Sunday I’ll be talking about my plan for a £200billion investment package to rebuild Britain.

It will be a British New Deal that will renew our crumbling buildings and transport systems and tackle our housing crisis, as well as investing in young people.

The job of uniting Labour and helping to rebuild Britain needs someone who gets things done, not just a talker.

Over the last year serving loyally in the Shadow Cabinet, I led campaigns that stopped the Tories in their tracks, when they tried to cut tax credits for low-paid workers and support for disabled people.

If Labour members and supporters put their trust in me, I will bring that fighting spirt to the job every day.

So we not only have the best opposition to the Tories imaginable, but get this rotten government out and return Labour to power.