PinkNews.co.uk has learnt that Gavin Hayes, the general secretary of left-leaning pressure group Compass, is being touted as a more viable challenger to Ms Hoey.

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Friends of disgraced Waltham Forest Labour Councillor, Miranda Grell, were quite vocal at Labour's Bournemouth Conference, telling anybody who would listen how unjust it was that Cllr Grell will have to stand down after being convicted of slandering her Lib Dem opponent at the last council election by telling electors on the doorstep that he was a paedophile.

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