Selecting Starmer: The Nomination Preferences of Labour Parliamentarians in the 2020 Labour Party Leadership Election



Heppell, Tim, Roe-Crines, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-6878-5030 and Jeffery, David ORCID: 0000-0002-9064-5544
(2022) Selecting Starmer: The Nomination Preferences of Labour Parliamentarians in the 2020 Labour Party Leadership Election. Representation, 58 (4). pp. 1-19.

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Abstract

This article tests the nomination preferences of Labour parliamentarians in their 2020 leadership election against a range of individual, constituency and party-political based variables. From this our article produces the following three central findings. First, that the appeal of both Long-Bailey and Thornberry was narrow, and that they were competing for the support of Labour parliamentarians aligned to the Corbynista vote. Second, that the appeal of both Nandy and Phillips was based around an anti-Corbynista vote, with Nandy drawing support from parliamentarians from leave-voting constituencies. Third, that the unifying pitch of the Starmer candidature carries some validity: his nomination base was characterised by its breadth rather than any specific factional appeal.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Labour Party, Keir Starmer, Leadership Selection
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 May 2021 10:46
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2023 00:53
DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1927809
Open Access URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00344...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3121522