Who will be the next Labour leader?

[William of Walworth]

Labour deputy leader details,. also from Labour List :

Round 1:
ALLIN-KHAN, Rosena – 77,351 (16.8%)
BURGON, Richard – 80,053 (17.3%)
BUTLER, Dawn – 50,255 (10.9%) [ELIMINATED]
MURRAY, Ian – 61,179 (13.3%)
RAYNER, Angela – 192,168 (41.7%)

Round 2:
ALLIN-KHAN, Rosena – 88,049 (19.5%)
BURGON, Richard – 88,664 (19.7%)
MURRAY, Ian – 64,560 (14.3%) [ELIMINATED]
RAYNER, Angela – 209,698 (46.5%)

Round 3:
ALLIN-KHAN, Rosena – 113,858 (26.1%)
BURGON, Richard – 92,643 (21.3%)
RAYNER, Angela – 22,8944 (52.6%) [ELECTED]

Labour deputy leader – total votes returned:
Members – 68.8% (380,076 out of 552,835)
Registered supporters – 88.5% (12,065 out of 13,626)
Affiliated supporters – 31.8% (69,316 out of 217,690)
Total – 58.9% (461,457 out of 784,151)

 

[William of Walworth]

Lots of members voting for the leadership didn't bother voting for the deputy, according to Labour List's figures -- quite a significant difference numerically (???)

 

[belboid]

Only 30,000, not that many overall

 

[killer b]

It was nailed on Rayner, and if you didn't want her who would you even bother voting for anyway? I'm not surprised at all less people voted for deputy.

 

[brogdale]

yeah, I think viewed alongside this you can see what that signals.

Yes, a small ray of light for Johnson if Starmer agrees to dip his hands in the blood.

 

[Sasaferrato]

How is Blairite Starmer going to cope with a Corbynist deputy?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Yes, a small ray of light for Johnson if Starmer agrees to dip his hands in the blood.

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Dont do it Keirbabes- its a trap

 

[brogdale]

Tough on crime.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Keir Royale for me today

 

[Wilf]

Fuller version of the results here:

https://labour.org.uk/people/leadership-elections-hub-2020/leadership-elections-2020-results/

I'm actually surprised Labour still has 552k individual members.

 

[killer b]

I'm actually surprised Labour still has 552k individual members.

me too!

 

[Wilf]

In the big picture I, not surprisingly, think Starmer is a dreadful response to the failure of Corbynism. But even within the party political positioning game that he's in, today was a poor start (that's the 20 second clip I've seen). It's obviously a very difficult thing to pitch, supporting the government while opposing them in the time of a national crisis. But there was space there to get right in about a publicly owned NHS, support and higher wages for carers, proper contracts for supermarket workers and others. All that sort of stuff could have been splattered with heroes references and the rest, alongside references to 'working constructively with the government', but marking out some territory. If there was ever a time when public services and community were important...

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

 

[killer b]

three lawyers and a PPE grad in the four top jobs. nice.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Right now we have an oxbridge classics grad, a PPE grad, a lawyer and... Priti Patel.

 

[killer b]

so?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

so?

Right back atcha

 

[killer b]

my god, is 'the tories are worse' really all you've got?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

my god, is 'the tories are worse' really all you've got?

I only really know anneliese Dodds and she seems excellent. What’s the problem?

 

[killer b]

three lawyers and a PPE grad in the four top jobs. nice.

 

[killer b]

(although fwiw these tip-offs to lobby hacks often turn out to be total bollocks, so lets wait and see)

 

[Sasaferrato]

three lawyers and a PPE grad in the four top jobs. nice.

Too fucking many PPE grads in the Commons, too few with real world work experience.

 

[Gramsci]

Looked up the leader of my New Labour Council in Lambeth (south London) Twitter. Not surprisingly he is so happy with result.



These New Labour Cllrs always opposed Corbyn and all he stood for. Hopkins wanted Starmer for leader from early on. I expect Chuka is kicking himself now for leaving his safe Labour seat in South London.

For Cllrs like Hopkins they want a return to a new version of New Labour. Corbyn was a break with that kind of centre politics.

It does grate to see Hopkins talk of unity. Given how ruthless New Labour in Lambeth has been.

 

[MickiQ]

I expect Chuka is kicking himself now for leaving his safe Labour seat in South London.

Silver lining eh?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

three lawyers and a PPE grad in the four top jobs. nice.

This is important.

For too long the Labour Party and too many sections of the ‘movement’ has been dominated by the alumni of student politics who - whether Blairite or Corbynite - saw the party as their plaything. Overwhelmingly middle class in hue, clustered in London and no routes or ability to understand the lived experience of the working class - whether a black cleaner in London or an ex-steelworker in Doncaster.

 

[brogdale]

I expect Chuka is kicking himself now for leaving his safe Labour seat in South London.

Straight out of the blocks...sniffing.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I heard starmer was going to knight Chucky and make him shadow chancellor!!!!!!

 

[MickiQ]

I heard starmer was going to knight Chucky and make him shadow chancellor!!!!!!

Nah, Starmer is many things but he's not stupid, even if he was it's up to Boris not him who gets to risk having their lugs cut off by an old biddy with a sword.

 

[redsquirrel]

This is supposedly a news not a comment piece

The suite of rooms in Portcullis House allotted to the opposition leader had been vacated by Jeremy Corbyn and his staff – or at least largely vacated – some days before. “It was a bit of a mess to be honest when we got there,” said a source close to Starmer. “There were boxes, clothes, papers everywhere.”
....
But there was a sense that, out of the disasters of coronavirus and its recent election losses, Labour can show again that it is the party of community, of public service, of working people who make the country function.

You can smell the sweaty palms over the computer screen.

 

[The39thStep]

Fuller version of the results here:

https://labour.org.uk/people/leadership-elections-hub-2020/leadership-elections-2020-results/

I'm actually surprised Labour still has 552k individual members.

I read somewhere that ut of those eligible to vote 293k didn't bother to vote for a leader candidate, 323k didn't bother to vote for a deputy candidate.