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Catherine West told the BBC that in the event of no other challengers, she would ask colleagues on Monday to back her as a way of starting a contest. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Live
Catherine West**. West, MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet and a junior Foreign Office minister until she was sacked in the reshuffle last year, [announced yesterday afternoon](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/09/may-elections-results-keir-starmer-labour-nigel-farage-reform-uk-politics-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-69ff5f818f08f695b7fc0b47#block-69ff5f818f08f695b7fc0b47) that, unless a cabinet minister
Catherine West would be “completely wrong”. West, a former minister, said she would begin collecting the 80 necessary names for a challenge on Monday. She is not widely considered a viable candidate herself