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David Miliband will step down from front-line politics to allow his brother to lead the Labour Party “as free as possible from distraction” following his narrow defeat on Saturday. His decision to stand down leaves 49 MPs to fight it out for 19 positions, at least six of whom must be women.
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25 Responses to “David quits – leaving 49 to fight for 19 places”
davidschoibl
RT @leftfootfwd: David quits – leaving 49 to fight for 19 places – take part in lffwd shadow cabinet poll http://bit.ly/bbFjLz
Philip Hunt
Diane Abbott should get a place, because she voted against the Digital Economy Act. She should shadow Jeremy Hunt, the minister of culture, who is responsible for implementing that Act.
Jonty Olliff-Cooper
http://is.gd/fEUvl @leftfootfwd 's poll of who should be in the #shadcab. i found it pretty hard to pick enough non mad ones
John Fitzgerald
RT @leftfootfwd: David quits – leaving 49 to fight for 19 places http://bit.ly/bbFjLz
John Woods
Will the coalition implode in the next two years? The Liberals won the vote in 1832 in a wave of confidence that the great reform bill would resolve all the problems in the world. Well, it didn’t and the party imploded and the Tories took over. Will Ed and his team be ready to take power or will they spend the next four years settling scores over who supported the Iraq war? For the sake of the victims of this deficit reduction scam, I hope they are ready.