Cool Alex, thank you very much for this.

Cool, looking forward to the rest of them.

Ah - Tony's fab. Looking forward to the rest of this. Must have been fun!

Fathers should be loyal to their sons, but as a socialist who talks to Tony each summer at Toldpuddle, I am gutted. Wiseman

Is it an endorsement?

I rather thought Tony Benn always treated Tony Crossland as a right-winger! But even Crossland, like Tony Benn, had the courage of his conviction. What I cannot appreciate among ALL the six Deputy Learship candidates is: (a) their lack of moral courage to admit that they made an opportunistic mistake in voting for the Iraq War (because they calculated that it'd be a successful bandwagon which they shouldn't miss, a la Robin Cook), and, (b) their variety of excuses which only go to show their reckless contempt of our intelligence! Hilary and some others effectively said (at the Newsnight debate) that there's no Rewind button in history, so let's just focus on the future - ie let's pretend to ignore even the present (of 100 deaths a day!)and the past (i.e. who let this genie out of the bottle). Will it wash that easily? Hitler, while exterminating the Jews, also fondly hoped that no-one will eventually remember it, and wrote: "Who remembers Armenia?" (i.e. the alleged massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire). We expected more moral courage at least from pedigree Benn! Similarly, born-again leftists like Cruddas and Harman now gutlessly say that they wouldn't have voted for Iraq Invasion if they knew then what they know now. Are we so gullible as to accept this excuse at face-value? They could have, if they so chose, also known what Cook and many other Labour MPs (a la Corbyn) knew and therefore voted against the Invasion. Mandela was against it; even thr right-wing French president Chirac was against it. But all the six candidates CHOSE to listen to Bush and Blair. No, this opportunistic bunch cannot be compared with even the erstwhile right-wing of our Party. They all had political integrity. That's why even right-wing Labour leaders of the old like Kinnock or Hatterseley were against the Invasion because it was patently illegal (as Kofi Anan also pointed out).