Names hotly tipped to replace Mr Corbyn include Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Emily Thornberry after Labor on Thursday night haemorrhaged (seats in the major ballot bringing the socialist party’s majority plummeting to 281. Express.co.uk readers waged their own bets on who should take over from Mr Corbyn, with the result being a Brexiteer after the veteran left-winger announced he would stay “neutral” on the subject of Britain’s departure from the EU two weeks before Britons raced to the polls. Up to percent said Lisa Nandy, MP for Wigan, should be crowned the new Labor leader, amounting to 326 of the vote.
Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips scooped 11 percent of votes, (participants.) Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, was next in line with (of the vote, amounting to nine percent.
Mr Starmer, MP for Holborn and St Pancras, got the same percentage but 281 of the vote.
Shadow Trade Secretary Emily Thornberry got four percent of the vote with Participants thinking she would make a good leader.
Readers have hailed Mr Corbyn’s departure(Image: GETTY))
********)Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, got the lowest number of votes(Image: GETTY)****** Ms Long-Bailey, who stood in for Mr Corbyn during one of the many TV debates, got just three percent of the vote with people wanting to see her as leader.
Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, got the lowest number of votes with – two percent.
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Comments widely reflected the result of the poll – and Mr Corbyn’s timely departure.
******** One commenter said: “No one, Do Not Resuscitate!”
Another, referring to Diane Abbott who accidentally wore mismatched shoes on election day, added: “Was hoping to see Abbott’s name there. She’d get my vote straight away. Keep the laughs coming Labor! ”
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**************Ms Long-Bailey, who stood in for Mr Corbyn during one of the many TV debates, got just three percent (Image: GETTY)**********A third added: “It’s not who should replace Corbin it’s who should replace Labor !!”
Another said: “Not one of them is fit for office. They are all totally discredited. ”
A sixth comment read:“ None of this lot is worthy of leading anything. ”
The poll comes amid a red-on-red war in the Labor Party over who should take over from Mr Corbyn.
******************************************Emily Thornberry got four percent of the vote(Image GETTY)
MP Lucy Powell warned against replacing Mr Corbyn as leader of the party with shadow Brexit secretary Mr Starmer and she claimed the Labor Remainer would be unfit to lead.
Ms Powell, who assisted Ed Miliband during his leadership campaign, also claimed that merely replacing Mr Corbyn with a new leader would not solve the huge problems striking her party.
She said: “Many of these underlying trends began many years ago.
“We’ve been losing support in our heartland communities for many years.
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The UK will leave the EU next month(Image: EXPRESS.CO.UK)
It comes as shadow chancellor John McDonnell has confirmed he will not be part of Labor’s next shadow cabinet following the party’s crushing defeat in Thursday’s election.
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