Labour's Deputy Leadership election
Chris asks us, his readers, who he should vote for in the forthcoming election for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. I suspect it should be Hiliary Benn or Alan Johnson (the current Cabinet Minister and former Trade Unionist, not the lecturer involved with Engage, Unite Against Terror and the Euston Manifesto) though I can't really give any good reasons except Hiliary Benn seems to be right about the right issues. To think that some people were suggesting Alan Johnson (the Minister...) as a potential Prime Minister only recently.An opinion poll last week for The Times asked people about whether they recognised the candidates. The results were not encouraging (for the MPs, perhaps they were for the rest of us).
The % who indentified (I believe unprompted in any way) each of the candidates.
Alan Johnson - 10%
Harriet Harman - 17%
Hazel Blears - 11%
Hilary Benn - 9%
Jon Cruddas - 2%
Peter Hain - 15%
Which would I have got correct? Certainly Alan Johnson, Harriet Harman, Peter Hain and Hiary Benn. I don't think Hazel Blears (I think I would have said Helen Liddell) and definitely not John Cruddas (who I would have gone with most people and said Derek Hatton, if I'd not been told he was a Deputy Leader candidate).
posted by Matthew @ 6/11/2007 09:52:00 PM
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