Deputy Race: Supporters Update[UPDATE]

Andrea Thu May 10, 2007 at 06:16:18 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Peter Hain has passed the magic "44" figure of supporters. Harriet Harman also lists more than 44 MPs in her endorsements page and Hazel Blears has also got 44 public endorsements



Peter Hain was today the first Deputy candidate to release his full list of supporters. 48 MPs have agreed to nominate him. Here's the list:

Ann Clwyd
Nick Ainger
Dave Anderson
Clive Betts
Roger Berry
Ronnie Campbell
Collin Challen
David Chaytor
Michael Clapham
Frank Cook
John Cummings
Wayne David
Jim Devine
Brian Donohoe
Maria Eagle
Louise Ellman
Natascha Engel
Jeff Ennis
Bill Etherington
Hywel Francis
Michael Foster (Worcester)
Paul Goggins
Patrick Hall
Mark Hendrick
Stephen Hesford
Eric Illsley
Huw Irranca-Davies
Sian James
Piara Khabra
Martin Linton
Andrew Love
Ian Lucas
Bob Marshall-Andrews
Tommy McAvoy
Jessica Morden
Denis Murphy
Paul Murphy
Dan Norris
Albert Owen
Nick Palmer
Gwyn Prosser
Chris Ruane
John Smith
Mark Tami
Des Turner
Alan Whitehead
Shaun Woodward 
Phil Woolas

Harriet Harman also lists on her website 45 names of MPs supporting her:

Eric Martlew MP (Carlisle)
Ken Purchase MP (Wolverhampton North East)
John McFall MP (West Dunbartonshire)
Angela C Smith (Sheffield Hillsborough)
Charlotte Atkins (Staffordshire Moorlands)
Linda Gilroy MP (Plymouth Sutton)
Madeleine Moon MP (Bridgend)
Ian Wright (Hartlepool)
Celia Barlow MP (Hove and Portslade)
Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Portsmouth North)
Chris Bryant MP (Rhondda)
Michael Wills MP (Swindon North)
Yvette Cooper MP (Pontefract and Castleford)
Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP (Ashfield)
Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP (Leicester West)
Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP (Barking)
Vera Baird QC MP (Redcar)
Rt Hon Tom Clarke MP (Coatbridge, Chryston, Bellshill)
Joan Ruddock MP (Lewisham Deptford)
Michael J Foster MP (Hastings and Rye)
Dawn Butler MP (Brent South)
Karen Buck MP (Regent's Park and Kensington North)
Julie Morgan MP (Cardiff North)
Jim Sheridan MP (Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Helen Goodman MP (Bishop Auckland)
Dr Howard Stoate MP (Dartford)
Dr Phyllis Starkey MP (Milton Keynes South West)
Barbara Follett MP (Stevenage)
Sally Keeble MP (Northampton North)
Ann Coffey MP (Stockport)
Derek Wyatt MP (Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
Fiona MacTaggart MP (Slough)
David Kidney MP (Stafford)
Alison Seabeck MP (Plymouth Devonport)
Angela E Smith MP (Basildon)
Andrew Dismore MP (Hendon)
Margaret Moran MP (Luton South)
Linda Riordan MP (Halifax)
Andrew Mackinlay (Thurrock)
Emily Thornberry (Islington South and Finsbury)
Angela Eagle MP (Wallasey)
Ian Gibson MP (Norwich North)
Betty Williams MP (Conwy)
Frank Doran MP (Aberdeen North)
Bruce George MP (Walsall South)

Hazel Blears is also close to the 44 figure with 45 declared public supporters:

Tessa Jowell
Anne McGuire
Alan Milburn
Martyn Jones
Stephen Byers
Hilary Armstrong
John Hutton
John Reid
Bridget Prentice
Steve McCabe
Tony Cunningham
Meg Munn
John Heppel
Frank Roy 
Jim Dowd
Linda Waltho
David Borrow
Grahm Allen
Roberta Blackman Wood
Russell Brown
Barbara Keeley
Ruth Kelly
Barry Gardiner
Paddy Tipping
Stephen Ladyman
Helen Southworth
Robert Flello
Anne Snelgrove
George Howarth
Christine Russell
Adrian Bailey
Gerlard Kaufman
Janet Anderson
Rosie Cooper
Siobhain McDonagh
Sharon Hodgson
Andrew Gwynne
Meg Hillier
Joan Ryan
Kali Mountford
Eric Joyce
Steve Pound
Dari Taylor
Andy Burnham
Caroline Flint
Rosemary McKenna
Kitty Ussher


Update [2007-5-11 8:49:36 by Andrea]: Some more MPs declared today. Blears has now reached 44 public endorsements

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Deputy Race: Supporters Update[UPDATE] | 7 comments (7 topical)

Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#1)

by grimupnorth on Thu May 10, 2007 at 06:35:38 PM GMT

Bob Marshall-Andrews backing Hain!!!!!!


Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#2)

by doctordunc on Thu May 10, 2007 at 06:41:19 PM GMT

It's clear that the Deputy election isn't really going to be about policies. There are Campaign Group MPs for Hain and Harman, and will presumably be some for Cruddas too. I can't see there being three left-wing campaigns, so people are clearly envisaging the deputy leadership to be all about other things. All the more reason why there needs to be a leadership election where we can have a debate about policy.


Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#3)

by JR on Thu May 10, 2007 at 07:24:29 PM GMT

For some reason, I can't reply to posts - but this is a follow on to doctordunc's above: But even if Meacher or McDonnell get enough nominations, there won't be a 'contest of policies' because most people in this party are simply unwilling to even contemplate a shift to the left. Meacher or McDonnell can shout their policies til they're blue in the face - it will make no difference, it will be like talking to a brick wall when talking to the Labour party. Either one of them who gets the nominations, will just end up making a fool of themselves against Brown.


Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#4)

by Andrea on Thu May 10, 2007 at 07:51:08 PM GMT

No, please, no MM and McD here too! Re the supporters lists. Blears one is probably the most predictable. I can't spot any surprises there. Hain's and Harman's ones are more diverse. Harman goes from Cabinet Ministers to Campaign Groupers. And Hain managed to pull together Shawn Woodward and Ronnie Campbell and Bob Marshall Andrews with McAvoy.


Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#5)

by petercoe on Thu May 10, 2007 at 08:15:33 PM GMT

...Which goes to show that MPs have no better clue than the rest of us mere mortals whether Hain is all of a sudden a passionate life-long left-winger or is just a pseudo-leftie pandering quite pathetically to the knee-jerk reactionaries because he thinks that's what the grassroots of the Labour Party is all about. Actually, come to think of it, the rest of us do know the answer to that: it's the latter. How sad that so many MPs are suckered by it and believe that's in the best interests of the party and the wider public.


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Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#6)

by Curlew on Thu May 10, 2007 at 09:45:59 PM GMT

Can someone please explain to me why all these MPs are interested in the deputy job? Surely Prescott was in the back waters for years holding this position. A rotten job with all the work and none of the kudos. Or is it a cushy well paid number?


Re: Deputy Race: Supporters Update (#7)

by Glass House on Thu May 10, 2007 at 09:48:54 PM GMT

Prescott fulfilled a different role - most of these guys can expect a proper cabinet position.


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