Who wants to replace UK's defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn?

[webfact]

Who wants to replace UK's defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn?

 

Britain's opposition Labour Party Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer leaves the BBC headquarters after appearing on The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain January 5, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party will elect a new leader after veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn said he would step down following his party's election defeat by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives.

 

The Labour leadership ballot will run from Feb. 21 to April 2, with results announced on Saturday, April 4. The party will also elect a new deputy leader.

 

The next leader and deputy leader will be chosen by a vote of party members and other affiliated or registered supporters.

The following are the candidates who have received the required number of nominations from Labour lawmakers to go through to the next phase of the contest:

 

KEIR STARMER

Starmer, 57, has been Labour's Brexit spokesman since October 2016 and is seen as having played a key role in pushing the party to back a second referendum on leaving the EU.

 

Starmer said he had spent his life fighting injustice, and was now ready to take on Johnson's Conservatives. Seen as a party centrist, Starmer has warned against overreacting to the party's election defeat by ditching Corbyn's left-wing agenda entirely. He describes himself as a socialist.

Starmer is a barrister who served as a senior public prosecutor before entering parliament, and was knighted in 2014 for services to law and criminal justice.

 

REBECCA LONG-BAILEY

Long-Bailey, 40, is seen as a strong contender because she has strong ties with trade unions, who are hugely influential within Labour, and is close to Corbyn and his senior ally John McDonnell.

 

Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey looks at Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice, next to former Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas during a general election debate in Cardiff, Britain November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

 

She represents the northern English constituency of Salford and Eccles and serves as Corbyn's business spokeswoman. Her first job was working in a pawnbroker's, and she went on to become a solicitor in the healthcare sector.

 

Announcing her candidacy, Long-Bailey said Labour needed a socialist leader committed to delivering the policies developed under Corbyn.

 

LISA NANDY

Nandy, a 40-year-old former Labour policy chief for energy and climate change, has said the party will become irrelevant unless it changes course.

 

A lawmaker who has represented the northern English town of Wigan since 2010, Nandy says Labour should focus more on towns, where, she believes "there is a strong feeling ... that Labour stopped listening long ago".

 

FILE PHOTO: Lisa Nandy Britain's Shadow Secretary of State for the Energy speaks during the opposition Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton, southern Britain, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

 

She resigned her energy post in 2016, one of several so-called "shadow ministers" who quit in protest against Corbyn. "He is unable to form a broad, inclusive shadow cabinet that draws on the best of our movement's left and right traditions," she wrote at the time.

 

JESS PHILLIPS

Known for being outspoken and candid, Phillips has long been a Corbyn critic. The 38-year-old ran women's refuges for victims of domestic abuse before becoming member of parliament for Birmingham Yardley in central England in 2015.

 

The youngest of four children, Phillips grew up in a Labour-supporting working class household and was given membership of the party for her 14th birthday. It was a childhood ambition to become prime minister.

 

Britain's opposition Labour Party leadership contender Jess Phillips leaves the BBC headquarters after an appearance on The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain January 5, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

Phillips said she would run for the leadership to challenge Johnson, and to rebuild trust with voters. Politics needs honest voices, she said.

 

EMILY THORNBERRY

Thornberry, 59, has represented the seat in north London next door to Corbyn's since 2005 and is Labour's foreign affairs spokeswoman. She is running for the leadership.

 

A strong supporter of a second Brexit referendum and of remaining in the European Union, Thornberry has said the question for the next leader should not be their position on Brexit but what their plan is for taking on Johnson.

 

Britain's opposition Labour Party Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry leaves the BBC Headquarters in London, Britain January 5, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

Thornberry joined Labour when she was 17, saying she was motivated by her experience of being raised by a single mother in social housing. She went on to become a human rights barrister.

 

TIMETABLE FOR THE ELECTION

Jan. 14-16 - People can pay 25 pounds to become a registered supporter of the party to vote in the leadership election.

Jan. 20 - Freeze date after which new members and affiliated supporters will not be eligible to vote.

Jan. 15 - Second round of nominations opens, for local Labour Parties and affiliated organisations such as trade unions.

Feb. 21 - Ballot opens.

April 2 - Ballot closes.

April 4 - Special conference to announce the result.

 

(Reporting by William James, Elizabeth Piper, Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Gareth Jones, Giles Elgood, Kirsten Donovan)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-01-14

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[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Who wants to replace UK's defeated Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn?

[JonnyF]

Hopefully it's Lisa Nandy. She's so hot with that cute little lisp ????.

[puipuitom]

a few months too late...

[TheDark]

Hilary Benn has sounded like an reasonable person, who probably could put the Labour party back together.

 

If not possible, then Lisa Nandy would bring some new ideas to the party.

 

If that is not possible, then it's time to bring Blair back to active politics. Not too soon anymore.

[JonnyF]

7 minutes ago, TheDark said:

Hilary Benn has sounded like an reasonable person, who probably could put the Labour party back together.

 

If not possible, then Lisa Nandy would bring some new ideas to the party.

 

If that is not possible, then it's time to bring Blair back to active politics. Not too soon anymore.

I think Hilary Benn might forever be tainted by the Surrender Act. 

ThornBerry hasn't shaken off her sneering post at the working class in Rochdale (white van and flag tweet).

Long-Bailey is seen as continuity Corbyn, too left wing.

Jess Phillips isn't taken seriously and would be terrible as a states woman. All she ever talks about is how 'real' she is but she's light on substance and policy. She's also still talking about Revoke or ReJoin.

Blair will never shake off the Iraq war. That's his legacy.

 

I think it has to be Starmer or Nandy. 

[newatthis]

If you're short of candidates, we'll send this fella over.

 

[Baerboxer]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

I think Hilary Benn might forever be tainted by the Surrender Act. 

ThornBerry hasn't shaken off her sneering post at the working class in Rochdale (white van and flag tweet).

Long-Bailey is seen as continuity Corbyn, too left wing.

Jess Phillips isn't taken seriously and would be terrible as a states woman. All she ever talks about is how 'real' she is but she's light on substance and policy. She's also still talking about Revoke or ReJoin.

Blair will never shake off the Iraq war. That's his legacy.

 

I think it has to be Starmer or Nandy. 

 

Tend to agree. Will be interesting to hear what Starmer's view on Scottish independence is if he wins. 

[Lantern]

They should put Diane Abbot in. Then they would never get elected again.

[ivor bigun]

1 minute ago, Lantern said:

They should put Diane Abbot in. Then they would never get elected again.

Beat me to it . 

[Nigel Garvie]

7 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I think Hilary Benn might forever be tainted by the Surrender Act. 

ThornBerry hasn't shaken off her sneering post at the working class in Rochdale (white van and flag tweet).

Long-Bailey is seen as continuity Corbyn, too left wing.

Jess Phillips isn't taken seriously and would be terrible as a states woman. All she ever talks about is how 'real' she is but she's light on substance and policy. She's also still talking about Revoke or ReJoin.

Blair will never shake off the Iraq war. That's his legacy.

 

I think it has to be Starmer or Nandy. 

Well neither Benn nor Blair are one of the 5 selected candidates, so that's no longer relevant. Starmer is way way ahead with the bookies, and has already got the biggest union UNISON on his side. UNISON is now larger than UNITE. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see McClusky, Laverty, and Jenny Forbes slide away into irrelevance. Along with Milne and Murphy, and of course Corbyn, they have done more to destroy the UK economy with their sad 1970s Europhobia, and destroy the Labour Party as a fighting force, than any before them. 

 

The plot to install continuity Corbyn looks to be stumbling. Recent polling of the membership shows Starmer ahead in every demographic and area. Milne and Murphy got put on full time contracts in a slimy underhand hard left attempt to ensure that they kept their jobs, but maybe they could be office cleaners. Phillips is refreshingly honest, and Nandy is the business, but time for them to grow with a top Shadow cabinet  job would do them no harm. 

 

The Labour Party actually has a lot of real talent available for their front bench, once the idealistically correct but intellectually inadequate, dross has been swept away. Yvette Cooper has the brains for the treasury.  However as Puipuitom correctly says "A few months too late". 

"Saddest words of tongue or pen".

[bert bloggs]

unless Boris really messes up in the next 5 years ,i reckon Labour will not be in power for a very very long time .

[emptypockets]

9 hours ago, newatthis said:

If you're short of candidates, we'll send this fella over.

 

No country deserves that clown.

[roo860]

Hilary Benn, never heard of her.

[elliss]

10 hours ago, newatthis said:

If you're short of candidates, we'll send this fella over.

 

 

      Lets not forget Farage is still available , Red tie @ the ready..

     Any party is better than none ...

 

 

Edited January 14, 2020 by elliss