Lisa Nandy has received the endorsement of GMB and is one step away from reaching the ultimate stage of the Labour management contest. Saying the
Lisa Nandy has received the endorsement of GMB and is one step away from reaching the ultimate stage of the Labour management contest. Saying the choice, the union’s normal secretary Tim Roache mentioned:
‘Lisa Nandy is a breath of recent 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 shrink back from the robust challenges or daring choices that lie forward, as a result of she is aware of that after fifteen years of dropping elections, extra of the identical received’t minimize it.’
That is vital 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 go to the membership stage. This appears to be like doubtless: Chinese language for Labour is rumoured to be contemplating backing Nandy.
There have been factors within the contest when it has appeared as if it is 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 and Lengthy-Bailey is predicted to make it by. Whereas Jess Phillips has dropped out as we speak, there’s a probability Emily Thornberry nonetheless makes it by with CLP nominations.
With Nandy doubtless by to the ultimate spherical, we’re heading for a extra attention-grabbing contest. Nandy’s pitch is that she is the particular person to reconnect the social gathering with its conventional heartlands that they misplaced to the Tories. As a gentle left feminine MP, she has the potential to win second choice votes from each Keir Starmer’s and Rebecca Lengthy-Bailey’s supporters. That is vital 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. Nandy’s technique is to get forward by cleansing up second choice votes. Even is that fails, Nandy’s second choice votes may show essential in deciding the eventual winner.
Though Starmer and Lengthy-Bailey stay the favourites, as we speak’s GMB endorsement reveals that the Labour management contest shouldn’t be written off but as a two-horse race.