Jon Lansman has declared his intention to run for General Secretary of the Labour Party, but he starts the race far behind favourite Jennie Formby with just two endorsements to her thirty-three.
Nearly a dozen MPs have already declared their support for Unite South East Regional Secretary Jennie Formby, including the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell.
Left blogger Skwawkbox also claims that up to ten members of Labour’s ruling NEC, the body who will decide on Labour’s next General Secretary on Tuesday 20 March, have already backed Formby. Of the ten, only TSSA union rep Andi Fox has public stated her support.
This should worry Lansman, whose Momentum campaign group was originally run out of the TSSA’s headquarters in London. So far Lansman has only received public support from Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker from left-wing news site Novara Media.
A full list of endorsements has been compiled below, with entries based solely on reports in italics.
JENNIE FORMBY
NEC Members
- Shadow Frontbench: Jon Trickett MP
- Shadow Frontbench: Rebecca Long-Bailey MP
- Shadow Frontbench: Kate Osamor MP
- Trade Unions: Jim Kennedy (Unite)
- Trade Unions: Andi Fox (TSSA)
- Trade Unions: Andy Kerr (CWU)
- Trade Unions: Mick Whelan (ASLEF)
- CLPs: Rachel Garnham
- CLPs: Pete Willsman
- CLPs: Rhea Wolfson
Trade Unions
Parliamentary Labour Party
- John McDonnell MP
- Chris Williamson MP
- Ian Lavery MP
- Dan Carden MP
- Ian Mearns MP
- Laura Pidcock MP
- Richard Burgon MP
- Grahame Morris MP
- Karl Turner MP
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP
- Andrew Gwynne MP
- Afzal Khan MP
- Thelma Walker MP
Other
- Paul Mason
- Skwawkbox
- Labour Against the Witchhunt
- Red Labour
- Labour Left
- Jeremy Corbyn for PM
- Eoin Clarke (ToryFibs)
- Rachael Swindon
- Peter Stefanowicz
- Tony Greenstein
JON LANSMAN
Other
