These are the latest numbers for Labour MPs who have openly declared who they will be supporting. Despite rumours of a 100 or more MPs being willing to nominate Burnham, only 24 have backed the openly socialist candidate. Leadership candidates need 35 nominations to go through to Labour’s first one person, one vote leadership election…
Supporters list can be found here: order-order.com/labdec send updates to team@order-order.com.

All of the Labour Party leadership candidates are scions of privilege:
Andy Burnham:
English, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.Yvette Cooper:
PPE, Balliol College, Oxford.Mary Creagh:
Languages, Pembroke College, Oxford.Liz Kendall:
History, Queens’ College, Cambridge.Doctor the Honourable Tristram Julian William Hunt:
History, Trinity College, Cambridge.
All white, all Oxbridge and all bar one even have the same haircut!

Fifty-four minutes. That’s how long you last in the Labour Party if you break the line.
Like fellow right-winger Jim Murphy before her, Mary Creagh is said to be absolutely seething about her brutal demotion to the political wilderness of shadow International Development. ‘Fuming’ was how one shadow ministerial ally put it to Guido at the weekend.
Cynical sources point to Creagh’s claim in the transport debate on Wednesday that: “I have nothing against privatisation”.
Fifty-four minutes after saying those words in the Commons, she was sacked.
Welcome to Miliband’s “new politics”.