The Newry and Armagh MP said: "I have served the party as deputy leader through very difficult times.
Stella Creasy, the energetic MP for Walthamstow, has made this a central pillar of her bid for the party's deputy leadership but the field is crowded.
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @billcode Fred McConnell deputy video editor Fred joined the Guardian in London in 2013 as a digital journalism trainee.
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @gabriellechan Katharine Murphy deputy political editor Katharine was national affairs correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and had senior roles at The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
The deputy prime minister said: "We will led by the experts and the evidence at all time".
Guardian Australia's editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, who is also deputy editor of the Guardian, promised to deliver an independent perspective on Australian and world news using "digital storytelling" to spark debate and put readers at the heart of the discussion.
The Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman, called for an apology, and a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats – increasingly eager to show they are locked in a loveless marriage with Cameron – said: "We would not have used that language".
Noel Kututwa, Amnesty's deputy director for Africa, said: "It appears the Zanu-PF supporters wanted to ensure that these women did not vote for the other parties and tried to compromise the secrecy of the ballot.
By this time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had risen steadily through the group to become a trusted aide to its leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, and his deputy, the Egyptian jihadist Abu Ayub al-Masri.
It's a testament to the significance of the Snowden disclosures and also to the hard work of many principled legislators on both sides of the aisle," Jameel Jaffer, the group's deputy legal director, said in a statement.
In an implicit criticism of Labour and the Tories, the deputy prime minister said that the majority of Scottish voters were not yet being offered what they wanted in next year's vote: further devolution within the UK.
