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Labour’s YES! men (and women)

Labour YES! to AV spokespeople announced.

By New Statesman Published 08 March 2011 14:57
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It's a list of "14 leading Labour lights", according to the press release from Labour YES!. You decide:

 

Ben Bradshaw MP, Chief Spokesperson and MP for Exeter

Tessa Jowell MP, Shadow Minister for the Olympics

Douglas Alexander MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary

John Denham MP, Shadow Business Secretary

Sadiq Khan MP, Shadow Transport Secretary

Gloria De Piero MP, Shadow Culture Minister

Rushanara Ali MP, Shadow Minister for International Development

Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour Assistant Whip

Alan Johnson MP, former Shadow Chancellor

Alison McGovern MP, PPS to Rt Hon Gordon Brown

Liz Kendall MP, Shadow Health Minister

David Lammy MP, Shadow Higher Education Minister

Baroness Oona King

Lord Neil Kinnock

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11 comments

zahidf's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 15:01 — zahidf (not verified)

Better than the no campaigners

Dave C's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 15:03 — Dave C (not verified)

Well, they're slightly less dinosaur-like than the Labour No patrons:

Lord Prescott
Lord Reid
Lord Falconer QC
David Blunkett MP
Emily Thornberry MP

Pat O's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 15:21 — Pat O (not verified)

'Slightly' being the operative word. Hardly inspiring

morosychristios's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 15:24 — morosychristios (not verified)

4 weeks LEFT. Better left late than never.

Ray C's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 18:29 — Ray C (not verified)

Ha ha ha ha ha.....no marks & wannabes one & all! Hilarious! David Lammy & Oona King! The "No" campaign must be quaking!

Jak's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 19:23 — Jak (not verified)

Why does Gordon Brown need a PPS? He's not a Shadow Minister. In fact he hardly ever turns up to the Commons.

Luddite's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 19:24 — Luddite (not verified)

A yes vote to, AV will open a political Pandora's box..

Stuart Eels's picture

Thu, 2011-03-10 13:45 — Stuart Eels (not verified)

Yes Luddite, we can only hope so.

Robert's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 20:54 — Robert (not verified)

I was genuinely undecided until those glossy "NO" adverts started peddling their mistruths.

Not at all intelligent.

Albert Hall's picture

Tue, 2011-03-08 22:49 — Albert Hall (not verified)

Jak, he's hardly an MP let alone a shadow minister. Yet he takes the MP salary for doing nowt.

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