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The next Labour leader? - your bets
We all know Brown will be toast a week by now so who do you think think will be the next labour leader (not caretaker leader).
I think it's between David Miliband and Alan Johnson. Harriet Harman and Ed Balls will throw their hats into the ring but they won't win (well I hope not anyway
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I think it's between David Miliband and Alan Johnson. Harriet Harman and Ed Balls will throw their hats into the ring but they won't win (well I hope not anyway
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Now would not be the right time for Milliband to take over and the powers that be....well, Peter Mandelson....will realise this and not 'waste' him immediately after Brown.
Johnson wont do it - he has already ruled himself out and said that he hasn't got what it takes to be a leader.
It's a poisoned chalice.
Whoever takes the job will have to virtually rebuild the party while all around recriminations rows and depression rule the day.
My guess: Johnson
With respect that's very silly to bring that up. We really expect people who's job it is and who's duty it is to support their current leader to come out and say "I'll do it!!"
You must think NOBODY in parliament will ever become the leader of their party because all of them, when asked, will always say that they don't want to.
I cannot see her standing down as Deputy too voluntarily - she wants the top job.
I don't think she is actually. I'm sure now 'Deputy Leader' of the labour party has actually constitutionally changed.
Like he's really going to say otherwise and invite speculation with an election coming up...
Please no!!! I'm a Labour supporter and would not like her to see hjer as leader. She's even more unpopualr than Brown!! However, Ken Lvingstone was saying on 'This Week' that the Labour party rules state that if the leader steps down the deputy leader automatically becomes the caretaker leader until a leadership election selelcts a new leader!!! :eek:
If that's the case Mandelson will insist she goes too or else he'll make sure she's deselected as a candidate
Well Labour do really badly on Thursday I think she might be pushed by Mandy!!
The problem with Labour are there too many 'hangers-on' who really need to go and make way for new blood and some fresh faces.
Well Labour do really badly on Thursday I think she might be pushed!! The problem with Labour are there too many 'hangers-on' who really need to go and make way for new blood and some fresh faces.
She is elected Deputy Leader - so acts as caretaker leader if the leader stands down. As Margaret Beckett did when John Smith died.
I think he might be persuaded to do it for a couple of years, then hand over to the next generation - maybe Miliband the elder. Ed Balls will presumably be working for Talksport by then.
She does not become 'caretaker' leader she becomes LEADER! And constitutionally she is entitled to remain in post until the annual election at the Labour Party Conference. It is a misconception that Margaret Beckett was acting leader in 1994. Upon John Smith's death she became leader and it was only with her agreement that the annual election was brought forward from September to July. She could have insisted on remaining in post until the normal party conference of 1994.
Not Ed Milliband please. He's awful.