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Wednesday 26 May 2010

How are the Labour leadership nominations going? (Update 26.05.10 evening)

Quite a bit of movement...

As of 17:30 update today:
Diane Abbott - 0 (no change) - will anyone nominate Diane or are they still waiting for Harriet Harman to pluck up the courage to stand instead?
Ed Balls - 24 (up 9) - a few more today Ed...
Andy Burnham - 14 (up 4)
John McDonnell - 4 (up 4) - Finally some nominations
David Miliband - 51 (up 3) - keeping ahead of his younger, even smugger, brother
Ed Miliband - 46 (up 5)

So who has plumped for Ed Balls today?
David Anderson - Former government PPS and member of Socialist Campaign Group
Tom Blenkinsop - New MP
David Crausby - An MP who has not troubled the government benches pre-this election
Andrew Gwynne - Previously Parliamentary Private Secretary to one Ed Balls
Eric Joyce - Serial PPS and top-claiming Member of the House of Commons for the 2005-06 & 2007-08 Parliamentary Sessions
Barbara Keeley - Former PPS to Harriet Harman and her deputy as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2010
Steve McCabe - Former full government whip
David Wright - Former assistant government whip and the man who tweeted '#ivenevervotedtory because you can put lipstick on a scum-sucking pig, but it’s still a scum-sucking pig. And cos [sic] they would ruin Britain.'
Iain Wright - Succeeded Peter Mandelson as MP for Hartlepool and became a PPS

So a better today for the diversity of Ed Balls' nominators: just two ex-whips and his own former PPS as well as four more former PPSs and two MPs with no apparent connections to Ed Balls or the former regime - why on earth would they nominate Ed Balls then?


Of the others Andy Burnham has nominated himself but more interesting are who has nominated John McDonnell: himself, Frank Field, Kate Hoey & Dai Havard - two intelligent serious Labour rebels, an MP who I have no information on and himself - a good start?


Next update at around 12:30 tomorrow.


I note that David Miliband's Labour party biography still shows his eldest son as being called 'Issac' not 'Isaac', it was that sort of attention to detail that marked the last Labour government.

1 comment:

Grant said...

I heard John McDonnell on Any Questions last week and was quite impressed. He seems to be very much his own man. The support of Frank Field and Kate Hoey bears this out. Like you, I know nothing about the other MP.