Lisa Nandy has received the endorsement of GMB – and is one step away from reaching the ultimate stage of the Labour management contest. Asserting
Lisa Nandy has received the endorsement of GMB – and is one step away from reaching the ultimate stage of the Labour management contest. Asserting the choice, the union’s basic secretary Tim Roache stated:
‘Lisa Nandy is a breath of contemporary air within the debate over Labour’s future. The extra members see of Lisa on this contest the extra impressed they are going to be by her ambition, optimism and decisive management. GMB is proud to appoint her. Lisa received’t draw back from the robust challenges or daring selections that lie forward, as a result of she is aware of that after fifteen years of dropping elections, extra of the identical received’t reduce it.’
That is important for 2 causes. Firstly, it means Nandy could be very more likely to make the ultimate stage of the competition. She now solely must win the backing of 1 affiliate group to move to the membership stage. That appears seemingly – Chinese language for Labour is rumoured to be contemplating backing Nandy.
There have been factors within the contest when it has appeared as if this can be a two horse race – and that it will solely be Keir Starmer and Rebecca Lengthy Bailey who would make it to the ultimate spherical. Starmer is already by way of and Lengthy Bailey is anticipated to make it by way of. Whereas Jess Phillips has dropped out right this moment, there’s a likelihood Emily Thornberry nonetheless makes it by way of with CLP nominations.
With Nandy seemingly within the last spherical, we’re heading for a extra fascinating contest. Nandy’s pitch is that she is the individual to reconnect the celebration with its conventional heartlands that they misplaced to the Tories. As a gentle Left MP and a feminine, she has the potential to win second choice votes from each Keir Starmer and Rebecca Lengthy Bailey supporters. That is important as a result of the voting system is preferential – voters decide their first and second choice for chief. If no candidate wins outright within the first spherical, whichever candidate is eradicated then has the second alternative of their voters counted. The Nandy technique is to get forward by cleansing up second choice votes. Even had been that to fail, Nandy’s second choice votes might show essential in deciding the eventual winner.
Though Starmer and Lengthy Bailey stay the favourites, right this moment’s GMB endorsement reveals that the competition shouldn’t be written off but as a two horse race.