Labour Party leadership election 2015

[Filuwaúrdjan]

CANDIDATES FOR LEADER

Andy Burnham - Leigh
Yvette Cooper - Normanton, Pontefract & Castleford
Jeremy Corbyn - Islington North
Liz Kendall - Leicester West

MAP OF PLP NOMINATIONS



MAP OF CLP NOMINATIONS



CANDIDATES FOR DEPUTY LEADER

Ben Bradshaw - Exeter
Stella Creasy - Walthamstow
Angela Eagle - Wallasey
Caroline Flint - Don Valley
Tom Watson - West Bromwich West

MAP OF PLP NOMINATIONS



MAP OF CLP NOMINATIONS



Last updated: 31st of July.

[Hifly]

Praying for Burnham

[Silent Hunter]

Of the likely candidates, who is on the right and the left of the party?

[Iosif]

It'll be Chuka or Dan Jarvis.

[Kalimantan]

Initial odds...

Chuka Umunna   9/4      
Andy Burnham   2   
Yvette Cooper   3      
Dan Jarvis      8   
David Miliband   12   
Tristram Hunt   12   
Rachel Reeves   20
Liz Kendall      16
Harriet Harman   16
Stella Creasey   25      
Lisa Nandy   25
Ed Balls           33   
Jon Cruddas   33
Alan Johnson   40   
      

[Kalimantan]

Cooper for me...

[Kalimantan]

Shamelessly copy-and-pasted from the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/who-will-be-the-next-labour-leader-if-ed-miliband-resigns-after-disastrous-election-10234692.html


After a disastrous night for Labour across the country, Ed Miliband looks almost certain to resign as leader later this morning. But who are his possible replacements?

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham is the bookies favourite, with odds of 5/2 to take the helm. His flagship policy of handing billions of pounds from NHS funds to local councils was reportedly vetoed by Ed Miliband, expect to see this idea revived if he becomes leader. But the shadow health secretary dismissed the idea of assuming the top position last night, when asked by journalists.

Yvette Cooper

Long seen as a favourite for the leadership, Yvette Cooper would be the first female leader of the party, should she be elected. The shadow home secretary and wife of shadow chancellor Ed Balls is a formidable politician. When asked if she saw herself as a future leader, she dodged the question and said: “I really don't think we should be talking about this. We have just had an election and we've got a lot more election results to come.”

Chuka Umunna

Despite only being elected in 2010, Chuka Umunna, who represents the London seat of Streatham, is another leadership hopeful. The shadow business secretary is said to have the backing of Tony Blair and apparently names the Tory Michael Heseltine as a political hero.

Dan Jarvis

The Barnsley Central MP recently had his odds of succeeding Ed Miliband slashed Dan Jarvis, the relatively unknown MP for Barnsley Central since a by-election in 2011, is currently the shadow justice minister, but is said to have leadership ambitions. The ex-Special Forces MP is seen as the New Labour option. Bookmakers put his odds of winning the contest at 5/1.

Tristram Hunt

Tristram Hunt, who is seen as one half of the new Blair and Brown partnership along with Chuka Ummuna, is a possible contender for the leadership. The shadow education secretary was parachuted into the safe seat of Stoke-on-Trent in 2010. Critics have accused the politician, who is the son of a peer, of waging a class war on private schools.

Liz Kendall

Liz Kendall is another comparatively unknown MP, who is a strong contender for the leadership. The MP for Leicester West is seen as a Blairite, who believes in choice for patients in the NHS and that private providers should be allowed to work within the health sector.

[Hnv1]

Can anyone rank that lineup from right to left?
Wouldn't it be wise by the party to either pick some scot to try reestablishing it's presence north of the tweed or some more blue Labour type of a leader to reclaim some working class seats?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Of those? You get a fair indication of Kendall's stance from the one thing already, so...

Burnham is traditional Labour Right, and has a working class background (and accent) even if he did go to Cambridge. Cooper is from the same technocratic centre of the Party as her husband (but does not sound like a technocrat). Umunna is generally regarded as a right-winger of the sort often tagged with the not-helpful-at-all label of 'Blairite', but he's actually associated with the soft left Compass think tank. Jarvis (who is not a household name at all but there's enough speculation about him that he's worth including) is a right winger associated with the 'Blairite' organisation Progress, though is mostly notable for his (unusual for Labour) military background. He has sometimes expressed views that are to the left of the Progress stereotype. Hunt (best known as a television historian) owes his seat in Parliament to a selection stitch-up orchestrated by Peter Mandelson: nuff said. He is also associated with Progress. Reeves is an independent minded economist and Fabian Society member who backed Ed Miliband in the 2010 contest despite also being associated with Progress. Her sister is a fixture on the NEC.

Some of those probably won't run, and there are other ambitious people around. And there would presumably also be at least one dedicated candidate of the Hard Left.

[Famous Mortimer]

If they nominate a Blairite, they don't deserve to ever win an election again.

I was switching back and forth last night between BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 and it was amazing how I didn't see a single Labour person say they obvious in regards to the crushing blow in Scotland "SNP won by being more like the Labour Party than the Labour Party" That's exactly what happened. It's nice, respectable way of deflecting blame and it has the benefit of being true! Instead they all rambled on about "oh, Cameron is stoking the fires of nationalism" What? Seriously, Labour lost a bunch of seats to a party running to their left. This is obvious to everyone. Why are they so terrified of acknowledging this?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mostly because it isn't actually true.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

But in any case 'Blairite' is mostly a term of factionalist abuse these days rather than an accurate label.

[Famous Mortimer]

Mostly because it isn't actually true.

What else could it possibly be?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Harman is also standing down as DEpty, so we have another slot to fill.

Any chance of Cruddas standing? I like him.

[Lief 🗽]

Jarvis or Cooper sound like the best options.

[Hifly]

Jarvis or Cooper sound like the best options.

To lose the next election?

Americans don't have a vote in this thankfully.

[Silent Hunter]

Mostly because it isn't actually true.

Because they also failed to gain a large batch of seats in Middle England, in part because of a party (UKIP) running to their right.

Labour's got a huge issue it has to deal with; its membership base, myself included, is pretty far off the political average of the British electorate.

[Oakvale]

Jarvis seems like the best choice although it's a bit troubling that someone who's only been in Parliament since 2011 can be a contender.

[Famous Mortimer]

Mostly because it isn't actually true.

Because they also failed to gain a large batch of seats in Middle England, in part because of a party (UKIP) running to their right.

Labour's got a huge issue it has to deal with; its membership base, myself included, is pretty far off the political average of the British electorate.

I think it's pretty safe too say that potential Labour supporters who voted for UKIP don't agree with UKIP on privatization or free market economics. They voted for UKIP as either a generic protest vote or, if they did actually agree with any policies, it was protectionist and anti-immigrant policies, neither of which preclude more left-wing economics.

[Phony Moderate]

Jarvis seems like the best choice although it's a bit troubling that someone who's only been in Parliament since 2011 can be a contender.

The current PM...

Though it doesn't make your point any less valid.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Military service is extremely overrated as a candidate trait in the US and I can't see it being much different in the UK, but Jarvis does seem like a decent "safe" choice.

[Oakvale]

Jarvis seems like the best choice although it's a bit troubling that someone who's only been in Parliament since 2011 can be a contender.

The current PM...

Though it doesn't make your point any less valid.

I thought it was weird when Cameron got it, too!

[Phony Moderate]

Just had a little watch of a Jarvis speech on YouTube. Very hard to envision Cameron bashing him around (like he did to Miliband). 

[Lief 🗽]

Yes, what Labour needs is a candidate that can stand up to the Tories and, most importantly, the rabid and disgustingly biased Murdoch press. Or else whoever they pick will just be turned into Miliband 2.0.

[You kip if you want to...]

I'm actually really happy with any of Jarvis, Burnham, Umunna or Cooper. I can't pick yet.