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The three Labour management rivals have been requested to pre-record a victory speech for when the competition’s result’s introduced on Saturday.
Rebecca Lengthy-Bailey mentioned it was a transfer that was “making an attempt to cope with these unusual instances” within the coronavirus outbreak.
She informed Sky Information that it will likely be “weird” to file a speech earlier than figuring out the end result.
Lisa Nandy and Keir Starmer are additionally within the operating to succeed Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour introduced that its particular convention on four April can be cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The winner of the management contest was resulting from be introduced on the occasion.
It’s understood celebration members will hear the end result by way of e mail and the media.
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Chatting with Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mrs Lengthy-Bailey mentioned the candidates will file the messages so members and the general public can view them from dwelling.
“It’s logistically fairly difficult and I feel we’ve all been requested to do that victory speech, so it may be despatched out over the airwaves as rapidly as potential after we win,” she mentioned.
“It’s going to be a bit weird.”
Labour members have been voting for his or her new chief since late February and the poll closes on Thursday.
Mr Corbyn introduced he would stand down after greater than 4 years within the job, following the celebration’s poor exhibiting in December’s normal election, which noticed Boris Johnson’s Conservatives win a parliamentary majority of 80.
Members have additionally been voting for a brand new deputy chief, after Tom Watson stepped down from the function in December.
Shadow schooling secretary Angela Rayner, shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, shadow equalities minister Daybreak Butler, Scotland’s solely remaining Labour MP Ian Murray and Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan are within the operating.
Ms Rayner is amongst a number of MPs who’ve self-isolated after growing signs of coronavirus.
She tweeted on Monday to say that her temperature had “lastly come down” and he or she hoped to really feel higher quickly.