With five candidates running for Labor Leader each has been identified as running on a ticket of sorts with one of the five candidates for Deputy Leader:
David Blunkett: The modernizing Blairite candidate (and blind since birth) and a Minister at the Home Office, Blunkett has placed particular care on issues like education and crime, arguing for a strong anti-terrorism stance due to the threat of the times.
Harriet Harman: Employment Secretary and the highest-profile Brownite, Harman is running as Brown's Deputy on a platform similar as his, while trying to highlight women's issues in Parliament and defend the merits of intervention in Africa.
Michael Meacher: The Environment Secretary and the candidate closest to Robin Cook, Meacher is running on the issues of clean energy and environmental protection, further efforts to tackle inequality and a highly skeptical view of the United States, leading some to describe Meacher as supporting 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Clare Short: Foreign Secretary Clare Short intended to run for leader, but ended up backing Margaret Beckett. Running on a platform of non-intervention (while supporting Afghanistan), liberalization on areas such as cannabis and the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland in order to secure an upcoming peace deal.
Jeremy Corbyn: "Red Ken" Livingstone's running mate, Corbyn is running as the hard-left "democratic socialist" candidate, putting particular emphasis on a non-intervention world view and a strong stance against nuclear weapons, calling for unilateral disarmament of the UK. Corbyn has also made the unions a center piece of the campaign, arguing new reforms need to go even further than Prescott's in empowering them.
You have two days to vote, the two candidates with the most votes go to a final round if no one garners a majority on this ballot.
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