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David Miliband's support: 102 MPs, 6 MEPs, 165 CLPs, 2 TU's, 1 SSoc

David MilibandBy Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

LabourList will be keeping track of the declared support within the Parliamentary Labour Party for each of the leadership candidates.

UPDATE: August 29th, 11am

MPs SUPPORT
Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East)
Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow)
Willie Bain (Glasgow North East)
Gordon Banks (Ochil & South Perthshire)
Hugh Bayley (York Central)
Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough)
Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)
Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway)
Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Liam Byrne (Birmingham Hodge Hill)
David Cairns (Inverclyde)
Alan Campbell (Tynmouth)
Jennifer Chapman (Darlington)
Tom Clarke (Coatbridge Chryston & Bellshill)
Anne Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
Ann Coffey (Stockport)
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire)
Mary Creagh (Wakefield)
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)
Jon Cruddas (Dagenham & Rainham)
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North)
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe)
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale)
Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield)
Brian Donohoe (Central Ayrshire)
Jim Dowd (Lewisham West)
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire)
Angela Eagle (Wallasey)
Julie Elliot (Sunderland Central)
Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
Christopher Evans (Islwyn)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse)
Caroline Flint (Sheffield Don Valley)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Mike Gapes (Ilford South)
Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East)
Patricia Glass (North West Durham)
Mary Glindon (North Tyneside)
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
David Hanson (Delyn)
Tom Harris (Glasgow South)
Mark Hendrick (Preston)
Meg Hillier (Hackney South & Shoreditch)
Margaret Hodge (Barking)
George Howarth (Knowsley)
Tristrum Hunt (Stoke Central)
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore)
Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Kevan Jones (North Durham)
Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
Gerald Kaufman (Manchester Gorton)
Liz Kendall (Leicester West)
David Lammy (Tottenham)
Ivan Lewis (Bury South)
Denis MacShane (Rotherham)
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough)
John Mann (Bassetlaw)
Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow)
Greg McClymont (Cumbernauld Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East)
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitchem & Morden)
Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East)
Anne McGuire (Stirling)
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Alun Michael (Cardiff North & Penarth)
David Miliband (South Shields)
Jessica Morden (Newport East)
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley)
Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire)
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts)
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian)
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield)
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton & Sunderland South)
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
Nick Raynsford (Greenwich & Woolwich)
Jamie Reed (Copeland)
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge & Hyde)
Frank Roy (Motherwell & Rishaw)
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd)
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central)
Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent)
Peter Soulsby (Leicester South)
Jack Straw (Blackburn)
Graham Stringer (Blackley & Broughton)
Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston)
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside)
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West)
Stephen Twigg (Liverpool West Derby)
Keith Vaz (Leicester East)
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South)
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield)
David Winnick (Walsall North)
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness)
Shaun Woodward (St Helens South & Whiston)
Phil Woolas (Oldham East)

MEPs
Richard Howitt (Eastern)*
Michael Cashman (West Midlands)*
Claude Moraes (London)*
Mary Honeyball (London)*
David Martin
(Scotland)*
Peter Skinner (South East)*

CLPs
Airdrie and Schotts
Alyn & Deeside
Amber Valley
Ashford
Aylesbury
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Barking
Barrow & Furness
Bassetlaw
Basingstoke
Batley & Spen
Beaconsfield
Birmingham Hall Green
Birmingham Hodge Hill
Birmingham Perry Barr
Bishop Auckland
Blaenau Gwent
Blackburn
Blackley & Broughton
Blaydon
Blyth Valley
Bognor Regis & Littlehampton
Bolton South East
Boston & Skegness
Bosworth
Brent Central
Brigg & Goole
Bristol West
Bromsgrove
Broxtowe
Burnley
Burton
Bury North
Bury South
Caerphilly
Central Ayrshire
Chatham & Aylesford
Chelmsford
Chesterfield
Chichester
Crawley
Croydon South
Colchester
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East
Delyn
Devizes
Don Valley
Dover
Dumfries & Galloway
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale
Ealing Central
Ealing Southall
East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow
East Renfrewshire

East Yorkshire
Edinburgh South West
Edinburgh West
Edmonton
Epsom & Ewell
Feltham and Heston
Forest of Dean
Gateshead
Glasgow Central
Glasgow North East
Glasgow South
Gloucester
Grantham
Harlow
Harrow East
Harrow West
Hitchen & Harpenden
Horsham
Houghton & Sunderland South
Hull West & Hessle
Ilford South
Jarrow
Knowsley
Lanark & Hamilton East
Lancaster & Fleetwood
Leicester East
Leicester West
Liverpool Riverside
Liverpool West Derby
Macclesfield
Maldon
Manchester Central
Meon Valley
Mid Sussex
Milton Keynes North
Mitcham & Morden
Morecambe & Lunesdale
Motherwell and Wishaw
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newport East
Newton Abbott
North Ayrshire & Arran
Northampton North
North East Somerset
North Herefordshire
North Tyneside
North West Cambridgeshire
North West Durham
North West Hampshire
Ogmore
Paisley and Renfrewshire
Pendle
Penistone & Stocksbridge
Plymouth Sutton & Devonport
Pudsey
Redditch
Reigate
Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner
Rochester & Strood
Romford
Rotherham
Rugby
Runnymede & Weybridge
Rushcliffe
Saffron Walden
Scunthorpe
Sedgefield
Selby & Ainsty
Slough
Sheffield South East
Sittingbourne & Sheppey
Somerset & Frome
South Hollands & The Deepings
South Shields
South West Hertfordshire
South West Norfolk
Stalybridge & Hyde
Stevenage
Stockton North
Stockton South
Stoke Central
Stratford Upon Avon
Streatham
Sunderland Central
Sutton & Cheam
The Rhondda
Thornbury & Yate
Tiverton & Honiton
Tonbridge and Malling
Tynemouth
Twickenham
Vale of Clwyd
Vauxhaul
Wakefield
Wallasey
Walsall South
Walthamstow
Wansbeck
Warrington South
Watford
Wellingborough
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
West Lancashire
Wimbledon
Windsor
Wirral South
Wirral West
Witham
Wolverhampton South East
Worcester

TRADE UNIONS
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SOCIALIST SOCIETY
Labour Students

NOMINATED BY

Bob Ainsworth (Coventry North East)
Douglas Alexander (Paisley and Renfrewshire South)
Willie Bain (Glasgow North East)
Gordon Banks (Ochil & South Perthshire)
Hugh Bayley (York Central)
Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough)
Ben Bradshaw (Exeter)
Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway)
Richard Burden (Birmingham Northfield)
Liam Byrne (Birmingham Hodge Hill)
David Cairns (Inverclyde)
Alan Campbell (Tynmouth)
Jennifer Chapman (Darlington)
Anne Clwyd (Cynon Valley)
Ann Coffey (Stockport)
Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire)
Mary Creagh (Wakefield)
Stella Creasy (Walthamstow)
Alex Cunningham (Stockton North)
Simon Danczuk (Rochdale)
Alistair Darling (Edinburgh South West)
Gloria De Piero (Ashfield)
Brian Donohoe (Central Ayrshire)
Gemma Doyle (West Dunbartonshire)
Angela Eagle (Wallasey)
Julie Elliot (Sunderland Central)
Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside)
Christopher Evans (Islwyn)
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse)
Caroline Flint (Sheffield Don Valley)
Paul Flynn (Newport West)
Mike Gapes (Ilford South)
Barry Gardiner (Brent North)
Patricia Glass (North West Durham)
Mary Glindon (North Tyneside)
Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East)
David Hanson (Delyn)
Tom Harris (Glasgow South)
Mark Hendrick (Preston)
Margaret Hodge (Barking)
George Howarth (Knowsley)
Tristrum Hunt (Stoke Central)
Alan Johnson (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Tessa Jowell (Dulwich and West Norwood)
Gerald Kaufman (Manchester Gorton)
Liz Kendall (Leicester West)
Ivan Lewis (Bury South)
Michael McCann (East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow)
Greg McClymont (Cumbernauld Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East)
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitchem & Morden)
Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East)
Anne McGuire (Stirling)
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Alun Michael (Cardiff North & Penarth)
Jessica Morden (Newport East)
Meg Munn (Sheffield, Heeley)
Jim Murphy (East Renfrewshire)
Ian Murray (Edinburgh South)
Pamela Nash (Airdrie and Shotts)
Fiona O'Donnell (East Lothian)
Toby Perkins (Chesterfield)
Bridget Phillipson (Houghton & Sunderland South)
Yasmin Qureshi (Bolton South East)
Nick Raynsford (Greenwich & Woolwich)
Jamie Reed (Copeland)
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge & Hyde)
Frank Roy (Motherwell & Rishaw)
Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd)
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central)
Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall)
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield)
Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge)
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent)
Peter Soulsby (Leicester South)
Graham Stringer (Blackley & Broughton)
Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside)
Gareth Thomas (Harrow West)
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South)
Phil Wilson (Sedgefield)
John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness)
Shaun Woodward (St Helens South & Whiston)

David Miliband also has the support of Alastair Campbell, Lord Charlie Falconer, GLA Labour Group leader Len Duvall and Blur drummer Dave Rowntree.

May 17, 2010 at 04:10pm


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It would be good if David stopped collecting signatures now he is comfortably past the target, giving room for MPs to support other canidates and create a really strong field. I can understand the temptation not to, but the internal democracy of the Party would be strengthened the more debate we allow.
Emma Burnell @ 14 weeks and 6 days ago
I hope we get as wide a range of candidates as possible, BUT I think the talk that MPs MUST now nominate other people is likely to backfire. I think the main motivation for people saying this is to get Dianne Abbott or John McDonnell on the ballot. But there are likely to be a lot of MPs who would never nominate one or both of these two. I am really in two minds about it - if I thought someone was totally unsuitable to be leader, I wouldn't nominate them just to get them onto the ballot. If I thought someone was the right person to be leader, I'd want to nominate them. The answer to this conundrum is to reduce the threshold. But even so I think both Dianne Abbott and John McDonnell would struggle to get on the ballot.
Martin Phillips @ 13 weeks and 1 day ago
I think the easiest way forward would be to allow MP's to nominate more than one candidate
Mike Homfray @ 13 weeks and 1 day ago
Agree totally with Emma. If David or Ed get so many nominations that they prevent any of the others from running then members will feel cheated and angry. David should show statesmanship and make a statement saying he doesn't want any more nominations and wants to see everyone on the ballot.
Robin Schofield @ 14 weeks and 2 days ago
I second that. David Miliband needs to refuse further signitures if he really believes 'the more the merrier'.
Will Porter @ 14 weeks and 6 days ago
Jacket off, using lots of hand gestures - the glottal stop in the voice when talking of the past, the "communication" with the "audience" addressing them as if they were a class of 11 year olds, cakd in make-up. This was David Miliband on 17th May 2010, but you could have been forgiven for thinking it was May 17th 1997 and Blair was on the podium.

There is not a halfpence of difference between them.

The same "warmth" masking cold calculated ambition and self-aggrandisement.

Cometo think of it, exactly like Cleg and Camron, who, is, after all the self confessed "heir to Blair".

What a revolting prospect for British politics. Three identical models to choose from. In this age of TV popularity, who is the prettiest?.Damn the policies, of course......
Alan Giles @ 15 weeks and 2 days ago
With Cruddas out Labour are running out of lefties. Based on the amount of media coverage Charlie Wheelan is getting though it would appear he wants to stand. Next best thing though......

john doe @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
As an avowed Tory, what exactly is your motivation with comments like this?

I can't imagine too many Labourites are poking their noses in on ConsHome and such like.

Still, respect for others and integrity might not be in some people's vocabulary or mind set.
Hazico 28 @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Strongly recommend intervening on ConsHome as I used to. The 1922 may be a slight sore today . .

Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell also have blogs, which tend to be a little more hospitable from the host point of view. Tory trolls are just plain nasty most of the time.
Quietzapple Quietzapple @ 14 weeks and 6 days ago
from the guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/17/jon-cruddas-labour-leadership-race

lacks the personal qualities, great to see a politician be so honest

got to be involved at the top whoever wins
ian robathan @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
He may have suspected that the Far left parliamentary nominations would be split, again?

I think the most far left nominee for Leader or Deputy since Michael Meacher ran for Deputy in 1983 was Margaret Beckett in 1994. All the others failed, by splitting the far left vote.

Just sayin' . . .
Quietzapple Quietzapple @ 14 weeks and 6 days ago
Now this is a shock

"Sky News reporting Jon Cruddas rules out Labour leadership bid."

running mate with Dave I reckon
ian robathan @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
I think that's a big mistake on his part Ian.

(And Alan Johnson.)

He was very popular last time in the deputy leadership contest.

Who do we have now who is left leaning?

(Sorry, but I couldn't vote for EB.)

I'd much prefer a wider choice of candidates!
Hazico 28 @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
I don't Jo, read the Guardian article he is being totally honest with himself and with the party

what counts is how the front runners use him but he did admit he liked some of Purnell's policies.
ian robathan @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Thanks Ian I will, but I'm really disappointed.It reduces any choice of more left leaning candidates, and becomes too bland a contest.

I will read it though- cheers.

Jo.
Hazico 28 @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
I seriously don't want more of "New Labour."
Hazico 28 @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
it has finished, DM said that and I have to trust him on it, otherwise whats the point of being here ?
ian robathan @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Jo, from what EM has said he is aiming that way but the proof is indeed in eating of it

Ed Balls will line up on the left but few other choices really and credible ones to win an election, that is what Jon has admitted as much
ian robathan @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
BBC News at 1800 showed start of D Miliband's campaign - he IS the new Blair, the same faux earnestness, the slightly preachy manner, the "acting" bit and wearing as much slap as Widow Twankey.

You are welcome to him
Alan Giles @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
the way Dave can prove New Labour is dead is to see the policy and then we can make an informed decision far too early yet to judge anyone
ian robathan @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Chris Bryant as well, Alex.

He was on Sky News the other day in support of D Miliband.
Northern Monkey @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
I know that Miliband has stated new labour is over, but thats just political electioneering, because the supporters he has I suggest are the full spectrum of new labour.

Ah well never mind.
Robert phew @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
True Robert: Say Mandleson, Campbell and Blair and you have New Labour. He might rename it "Next Labour" but it's the same shabby old product repackaged in a new box. Also he has the support of some of the old troughers like Phil Woolas
Alan Giles @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Ludwig Wittgenstein @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
This does not include Gloria De Piero, Tessa Jowell, Alan Campbell or Phil Wilson.
John Rentoul @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Wow! 1 6 !!! - what a recommendation. Apart from Fitzpatrick, Johnson and Woolas (the latter well known during the expenses scandal) and possibly Ms Vaz by family association, I doubt that anybody, apart from their own constituents have ever heard of these stars. They will probably only know of Fitzpatrick because of his recent election travails with George Galloway.

Well, I have to hand it to him... Good is NOT the word. What can I say? I'm underwhelmed :)
Alan Giles @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Hi labourlist

why are there no women standing for leader? Is it still the mens club?

Danny
ricki lake @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
@Ricki

Indeed. A great disappointment to me to.

Well at least we can safely say as far as it goes that we can hardly accuse any of the candidates of actaully being "men".

None of them have ever fought for a noble cause or to create a real change for idealistic reasons in their entire lives.

I suppose they can calim to have been alive but to have never lived if that is indeed an achievement. Or they can claim to be good at taking minutes or chairing meetings. I think that is about as far as it goes.

Bit of a poor showing really.
Ralph Baldwin @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Hi Ralph

after having all women shortlists for years there should be some female candidate?

Danny
ricki lake @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Perhaps they have better things to do?

Seriously, I was at a committee meeting of the patients' forum at my local hospital last week and men were outnumbered 5 to 1 by women. Patient's forums are very important because they monitor hygiene, quality, cleanliness etc of the hospital and make sure that the hospital takes action. That has a more of a benefit than politicians.

However, to widen this discussion. I keep hearing people say "long election process" and while I think we should take time to pick the right leader I still think we should not get distracted by it.

We are promised "no front linecuts" but what Osborne/Laws (who have the money to buy services) think are not frontline will still have serious effects on those of us who do use the services.

I want to see Labour produce some very simple principles - lines in the sand. I want to see Labour examining the new policies of the ConDems in terms of those principles so that we can see the policies that are important to defeat and important to campaign against. I would also like to see a Labour list of policies to change. The party should have a web page and as each objectionable ConDem policy is rammed through Parliament I want to see the act added to the list with either repeal or amend and if amend give the details. This way the public will see over time what we believe in and will see what the benefits would have been to them if there had been the Labour way rather than ConDem way.

Such a page could easily be the manifesto, which means that we would be campaigning on the manifesto for the entire Parliament rather than a couple of weeks at the end.
Richard Blogger @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
@Ricki

Maybe they are too independently minded. None of these candidates has ever shown any great interest in the problems this country faces or in fact any real comprehension of the core issues involved.

I think it probably says a lot for the female MP's elected that they are not included, they are probabaly and hopefully too much of a threat to the men. Either that or its an all men's list selection orchestrated by Mandelson.
One thing it does diplay and that is the Parliamentary Party is weak and ineffectual and easily controlled. There will be no rebellions and additionally no issues either lol!

We are in for a poor time as an opposition.

Ralph Baldwin @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
It's sad Danny but none of them seem to want to try. I suspect the truth is so few women have been in cabinet they feel they have little chance. Yvette Cooper wouldn't do it as her husband undoubetly will (sooner or later), I don' think it would be wise for Ms Blears to have a go, and of the other women - and I don't say this to be ungallant - I suspect such is the "youth" culture round politics that the obvious candidates (Tessa Jowell, Harriet Harman) would feel they are too old, though I personally think experience is more important than youth if you want to lead a party.

Perhaps they could persuade Frank Field to do it in drag? :)
Alan Giles @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Ralph and alan

i think its a disgrace ,After 13 years we cant find a woman candidate to stand , it makes a mockery off all women shortlists and makes it look like window dressing , All the current candidates belive in the same policy, so its just a beauty contest.

Danny
ricki lake @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
@Ricki

Yes it is.

You have to remember two very important things abour Parliamentarians.

1) They are not very smart. That is why they have to spend so much time pretending to be.

2) They are very, very slow to the things we would do in a profession or the real world very quickly.

That is why I like to call them the unelites. Because they are hopelessly crap and incredibly ignorant. The shocking thing is when you meet their sycophantic suck-ups who are out of touch even before they reach Parliament, now that is what I call an achievement.
Ralph Baldwin @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
I totally agree with you, Danny. It also shows that "equality" is still a word only paid lip service to in Labour.

(My party has a woman leader)
Alan Giles @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago
Well sadly most of the women in positions of power under New Labour were Blair/Brown stooges, or just not big players in their own right. Look at Flint and Blears. No thanks! Yvette Cooper never got a chance to make a name for herself - it's her husband that everybody is interested in. Probably the only senior Labour women are Beckett (she was deputy, and then interim leader, in the 1990s), but she is past it now, and Harman who has ruled herself out. We nee more Barbara Castles.
Alex Otley @ 15 weeks and 3 days ago