Labour leadership election: Jeremy Corbyn's successor to be announced at 10.45am – live news

Good morning. This morning the Labour party is going to announce who has been elected to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader. Even before the coronavirus pandemic forced the UK, and much of the world, into lockdown, the contest was attracting less interest than some previous ones because Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, was – and is – expected to win easily, and this morning the announcement will be entirely overshadowed by the crisis facing the nation. Plans for a special conference, where the result was going to be unveiled, were cancelled, and instead Labour will just be press releasing the results at 10.45am.

But the fact that this announcement will not register as a major news event does not mean it does not matter. Hopefully the next Labour leader will be with us a lot longer than coronavirus, and the result revealed this morning will over time shape our politics considerably.

Starmer and his two rivals, Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary, and Lisa Nandy, have all been asked to pre-record video messages to be released in case they win. Labour will also be announcing the results of the deputy leadership election. Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, is widely expected to get the job, but she is up against four other candidates: Richard Burgon, Dawn Butler, Ian Murray and Rosena Allin-Khan.

Here is my colleague Rajeev Syal’s preview story.

And this is how Rajeev’s story starts.

Keir Starmer’s plans to transform the Labour party will be dictated by the scale of his anticipated victory on Saturday, key supporters have said, as senior Jeremy Corbyn supporters expressed concerns they could be purged from key positions.

Allies of the former director of public prosecutions say they will be watching to see whether he can achieve an emphatic win before assessing how quickly he can remake the party in his own image, with a clearout of those responsible for the damaging 2019 election defeat.

MPs who support Starmer, 57, are hoping that a resounding victory will put pressure on some of the key individuals close to Corbyn to step down. They are said to include Karie Murphy, Corbyn’s chief of staff and one of the election’s directors, and Jennie Formby, the party’s general secretary.

I will be covering the results, the build-up to their announcement (such as there is any) and providing reaction and analysis. I will be wrapping up at around lunchtime.

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