Alternate Labour Leader - 1987

Who should become the new Labour leader?

  • Roy Hattersley (Deputy Leader and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer)

    Votes: 2 4.8%
  • John Smith (Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry)

    Votes: 19 45.2%
  • Tony Benn (backbencher, former cabinet minister)

    Votes: 11 26.2%
  • Gerald Kaufman (Shadow Home Secretary)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • John Prescott (Shadow Secretary of State for Employment)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Eric Heffer (backbencher)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bryan Gould (shadow cabinet member)

    Votes: 4 9.5%
  • Margaret Beckett (Social Security spokeswoman)

    Votes: 1 2.4%
  • Jack Straw (backbencher)

    Votes: 3 7.1%
  • Denis Healey (shadow Foreign Secretary)

    Votes: 2 4.8%

  • Total voters
    42
Roy Hattersley but I don't think he'd do particularly well against Thatcher at the Dispatch Boxes and he still has the Militant wing of the party to contend with.
 
Young firebrand Gordon Brown is worth a punt at 100/1, he plays very well in the CLPs... [/PoliticalBetting1987]
 
I'd go with John Smith. He'd do a lot better than Hattersley against Thatcher and he could have won the 1992 election.
 
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