Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
I don't share Jon Cruddas' politics but I was shocked to see the way Alex Hilton - a Labour Parliamentary Candidate - has described him in a comment here on Labour Home . The attacks on Cruddas' political opinions are fair comment, but for Alex to say this "In fact, I think Cruddas is the Labour politician most reminiscent of Oswald Mosley, he is dangerous, and should be kept away from power at all...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The Labour right are on the march and want to take us back to the failed policies of Blair - and worse: even to a new cold war. It's time we fought back and promoted our own successor generation. In Ed Balls and Jon Cruddas we have the perfect combination. Both men understand the need to change - to take Labour back to its roots and to end the constant pandering to the Tories, the Murdochs and the...
RecessMonkey (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
The Deputy Leader of Barking & Dagenham Council, Liam Smith, is in hot water after calling the mother of a political opponent a “Fucking fat dyke”. The Labour Councillor, who works for Jon Cruddas MP, must now be thrown out of the Labour Party for his abusiveness and evident homophobia - except I fear that Labour’s [...]
snowflake5 (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
In these feverish times, all sorts of pundits have been touting all sorts of candidates for leadership of the Labour party. The most excited speculation concerns some of the candidates for last years deputy leadership contest - Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas. Let's take a look at the detail of the voting round by round: Round 1 Candidate Affiliates CLPs MPs and MEPs
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Full coverage of UK politics The latest place to merit a visit from Iain Dale for Telegraph TV is Dagenham. In the film he meets Simon Jones, the Tory who is putting up against Labour's Jon Cruddas, and believe it or not, it is now a seat wh...
Dave's Part (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Unnamed union leaders want to see Alan Johnson – former general secretary of the Communication Workers’ Union, of course – installed as Britain’s next prime minister, the Observer reported yesterday. Jon Cruddas, perceived as a union-friendly soft left, would be...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
A weekly look at the politics stories in the Sunday newspapers A good start from Toby Helm, the new Whitehall Editor of The Observer with a story about the trade union dream ticket of Jon Cruddas and Alan Johnson. The idea is that the unions feel this is the only way to stop David Miliband and a perceived return to Blairite free market fundamentalism. So there is now a pincer movement from the left...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
A look at the background of the man people are touting as the next deputy leader - all over again - by a Cruddas anorak and Tribune reporter Jon Cruddas was the nearly man in Labour's 2007 deputy leadership contest - a contest which, though quickly forgotten afterwards, has resurfaced amid media speculation over the Labour leadership. With The Observer suggesting that unions are backing a 'dream ticket'...
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Interesting reports from the Guardian and the Telegraph point to a powerful coalition of mainstream Labour MPs and leaders of Britain's biggest unions is backing a right-left 'dream ticket' of Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas to lead the party into the next general election, having given up on Gordon Brown's premiership.The plan to install Johnson, the centre-right Health Secretary, and Cruddas, a centre-left...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The Observer today touts Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas as a future leadership team, with the backing of the unions, to stop Miliband's aspirations and get Labour back on track. They predict a fairly swift move for a contest! How much of this can be believed I don't know, but Tony Woodley has 'savaged' Brown's record as Chancellor and PM (to be expected!), and backed Alan Johnson as a candidate to take...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas touted as team to thwart David Miliband
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas touted as team to thwart the leadership ambitions of David Miliband
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Labour's civil war continues to rage today, as a likely leadership contender accuses David Miliband of a "narcissistic dash for personal glory". Jon Cruddas, who is being pressed by the centre-left to stand as a "Stop Miliband" candidate, describes the Foreign Secretary as "indulgent" and bent on returning the party to an out-of-date "Blairite nirvana".
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Michael White writes in today's Grauniad. What I found especially interesting in this was speculation about potential leadership candidates. Michael White believes that the potential candidates will be David Milliband, Alan Johnson, James Purnell and Jon Cruddas. When the leaderhip challenge finally comes (he doesn't seem to estimate when) Johnson and Purnell will supposedly fall in behind Milliband,...
