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Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey has confirmed her surname is hyphenated.
The shadow business secretary has cleared up the confusion over her last name, which appears as Long-Bailey in her Twitter profile, but without the hyphen on her UK Parliament page.
She told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme: “There actually is a hyphen – but I’m not bothered, I mean, I was Rebecca Long before I got married and I thought it was a really good idea to keep the ‘Long’ because I was quite proud.”
She added: “We’re all girls in our family so there was no one to kind of carry on the name, so I wanted to add the Bailey on, not to upset the husband – to make him feel like he was part of it all.
“So I’m not bothered if people put a hyphen in or not, it doesn’t bother me as long as the Long’s there and the Bailey’s there.”
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Ms Long-Bailey said she would work “very hard and very robustly” to tackle anti-Semitism in the party and she was unhappy at the way the issue had been dealt with.
“I don’t think we were dealing with complaints quickly enough and I think that’s quite clear, I’ve been quite vocal about that,” she said.
Asked if Mr Corbyn bore personal responsibility, she said: “He does and he’s apologised.
“I think any Labour politician that leads the Labour Party should apologise again for what has happened because it has been unacceptable.”
Additional reporting by Press Association.
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