Owen Smith is now in a head-to-head battle with Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership. We’ll know by September 24th – the day before the Labour party conference starts – who has come out on top. As things stand, Corbyn is the clear favourite: a recent YouGov poll put the party’s current leader 20 points ahead of his rival. But Owen Smith is not going to relinquish without a fight and has already been doing his best to counter one of his main problems – how well-known he is. Smith has been positioning himself as the ‘radical’ yet ‘normal’ alternative to Corbyn in various interviews. He’s also vowed to be like the ‘duracell bunny’ in his energy for taking the fight to Corbyn and ousting the Labour leader. Ninety Labour MPs are pinning their hopes on him doing just that. So who are the Labour MPs giving their support to Owen Smith? Here’s the full list:
Alexander, Heidi
Allin-Khan, Rosena
Beckett, Margaret
Betts, Clive
Blackman-Woods, Roberta
Blenkinsop, Tom
Blomfield, Paul
Brown, Lynn
Buck, Karen
Burden, Richard
Byrant, Chris
Byrne, Liam
Cadbury, Ruth
Chapman, Jenny
Cruddas, Jon
Cummins, Judith
Cunningham, Alex
Cunningham, Jim
David, Wayne
Dugher, Michael
Efford, Clive
Ellman, Louise
Elmore, Chris
Esterson, Bill
Fovargue, Yvonne
Foxcroft, Vicky
Glass, Pat
Godsiff, Roger
Goodman, Helen
Green, Kate
Gwynn, Andrew
Haigh, Louise
Hanson, David
Harris, Carolyn
Hayes, Helen
Hayman, Sue
Healey, John
Hollern, Kate
Huq, Rupa
Jones, Gerald
Jones, Graham
Jones, Helen
Jones, Kevan
Jones, Susan-Elan
Keeley, Barbara
Lewell-Buck, Emma
Lucas, Ian
Lynch, Holly
Madders, Justin
Mahmood, Khalid
Mahmood, Shabana
Marris, Rob
Matheson, Chris
McCarthy, Kerry
McGinn, Conor
McInnes, Liz
McKinnell, Catherine
McMahon, Jim
Miliband, Ed
Morden, Jessica
Nandy, Lisa
Onn, Melanie
Onwurah, Chi
Owen, Albert
Pearce, Teresa
Pennycook, Matthew
Perkins, Toby
Powell, Lucy
Reed, Steve
Rees, Christina
Reeves, Rachel
Reynolds, Jonathan
Rimmer, Marie
Sheriff, Paula
Slaughter, Andy
Smith, Jeff
Smith, Nick
Smith, Owen
Starmer, Keir
Stevens, Jo
Thomas, Gareth
Thomas-Symonds, Nick
Turley, Anna
Turner, Karl
Twigg, Stephen
Whitehead, Alan
Wright, Iain
Zeichner, Daniel
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