by Sunny Hundal

Yesterday Don Paskini made a convincing case for Labour MP John McDonnell to be nominated for Labour leadership race.

I agree that the party needs a strong left-wing voice and John is the obvious candidate given that the only other contender has backed out.

There isn’t much time before nominations for the leadership close, so I need some help in putting pressure on these MPs to nominate John and have that wide-ranging debate.



These nominated him last time

1. Diane Abbott MP, Hackney North and Stoke Newington

2. Ronnie Campbell MP, Blyth Valley

3. Martin Caton MP, Gower

-. Michael Clapham MP, Barnsley West and Penistone – stepped down

4. Katy Clark MP, North Ayrshire and Arran

-. Harry Cohen MP, Leyton and Wanstead – stepped down

-. Frank Cook MP, Stockton North – replaced by Alex Cunningham (Labour) MP

-. Jeremy Corbyn MP, Islington North – nominating John

-. Jim Cousins MP, Newcastle upon Tyne Central – stepped down

-. Ann Cryer MP, Keighley – stepped down

-. David Drew MP, Stroud – lost his seat.

-. Bill Etherington MP, Sunderland North – stepped down

-. Mark Fisher MP, Stoke-on-Trent Central – stepped down.

5. Paul Flynn MP, Newport West

-. Neil Gerrard MP, Walthamstow – stepped down

-. Dr Ian Gibson MP, Norwich North – resigned

6. Nia Griffith MP, Llanelli

7. David Heyes MP, Ashton-under-Lyne

8. Kelvin Hopkins MP, Luton North

-. Lynne Jones MP, Birmingham, Selly Oak – stepped down

9. Michael Meacher MP, Oldham West and Royton

-. Gordon Prentice MP, Pendle – lost his seat

10. Linda Riordan MP, Halifax – endorsed Ed Miliband, but persuadable

-. Alan Simpson MP, Nottingham South – stepped down, replaced by Lillian Greenwood (below)

11. Dennis Skinner MP, Bolsover

-. David Taylor MP, North West Leicestershire – deceased

-. Robert Wareing MP, Liverpool, West Derby – stepped down

-. Mike Wood MP, Batley and Spen – already supporting him

Other members of Socialist Campaign Group who didn’t nominate him

12. David Anderson MP

13. John Cryer MP

14. David Hamilton MP – has endorsed Ed Miliband but persuadable

15. Ian Lavery MP

16. Austin Mitchell MP

Possible

17. Lisa Nandy MP

18. Lillian Greenwood MP

19. Jim Dobbin MP

20. Graham Stringer MP

21. Michael Connarty MP

22. Jon Cruddas MP

23. Ian Davidson MP

24. Fabian Hamilton MP

25. Dai Havard MP

26. Lindsay Hoyle MP

27. Alan Meale MP

28. Marsha Singh MP

29. Joan Walley MP

30. David Winnick MP

Definites (need 33 in total) confirmed publicly

1. John McDonnell MP

2. Jeremy Corbyn MP

3. Mike Woods MP

4. Graeme Morrice MP

Latest news updates

– John McDonnell admits it will be tough.

– RMT union endorses him (comment by Harpymarx below)

– Observer’s political editor Toby Helm thinks John will get it

List update 1

Add some more names of potential candidates and changed Michael Meacher back to being available. We’ll know more tonight after the Campaign Group meeting

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1. Some of these will no longer be MPs and others will have already declared for other candidates. We need to identify those and mark them as such.

2. We’ll need to name other potentials who may want to nominate him.

3. We need to call each one and find out where they are. My suggestion: pick one or two names, find out their office numbers, call them and politely ask whether they would be nominating John McDonnell and why it’s important that they do.

Then leave a comment or contact me to let me know what you found out. I’ll constantly update this list.

[hat-tip: @novocastrianrob and @BenCooper86 and @theday2day for some info. Update: Thanks to earwicga for lots of help]