Deputy Leadership contest: how the MPs stack up

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Deputy Leadership contest: how the MPs stack up

By Mark Pack | Fri 28th May 2010 - 9:32 pm

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The following list of MPs backing different Deputy Leader candidates only lists those who have declared their support in public so far. If you spot any more, please do post up a comment along with the source of the information and I’ll update this post as news comes in.

Tim Farron (11)
Gordon Birtwistle
Ming Campbell
Steve Gilbert
John Hemming
Martin Horwood
Chris Huhne
John Leech
Greg Mulholland
Tessa Munt
Dan Rogerson
Ian Swales

Simon Hughes (21)
Alan Beith
Tom Brake
Jeremy Browne
Paul Burstow
Vince Cable
Ed Davey
Don Foster
Andrew George
Mike Hancock
Nick Harvey
Stephen Lloyd
Michael Moore
John Pugh
Bob Russell
Adrian Sanders
Sarah Teather
David Ward
Steve Webb
Roger Williams
Stephen Williams
Simon Wright

UPDATE: The actual vote was Simon Hughes 38, Tim Farron 18.

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10 Comments

Martin 29th May '10 - 12:36am

Adrian Sanders has backed Hughes too- check his facebook page, status 28th May 10.09
Duncan 29th May '10 - 1:23am

There’ll be no Lembit effect in this election 🙁
Bernard Salmon 29th May '10 - 11:43am

John Hemming is also backing Tim Farron.
Jonathan Barnes 29th May '10 - 3:27pm

And Simon Wright is backing Simon Hughes.
rantersparadise 29th May '10 - 9:14pm

Hughes all the way!
matt severn 30th May '10 - 12:09pm

farron all the way!
Martin F. 30th May '10 - 8:52pm

It would be good if David Laws now stood.

M.
Gary 31st May '10 - 11:05pm

I think an older figure to balance things is good – in the vein of Russell Johnston, Alan Beith, Ming Campbell and Vince Cable.
Sesenco 31st May '10 - 11:21pm

“Adrian Sanders has backed Hughes”

Now, there’s a turnaround! I recall those two getting a little bit catty with each other during the 1997/2001 Parliament.
Political Smarkets 4th Jun '10 - 10:08am

Latest betting makes Hughes strong favourite 72% versus Farron on 20%.