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If this were a 98 % White British seat Margaret Beckett might be vulnerable.

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On another day of drama, four former Labour leaders - Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband - all said it was time for Mr Corbyn to stand down, as did David Cameron.

Former frontbencher Chris Bryant, as well as ex-leaders Neil Kinnock and Margaret Beckett, all called on the left - wing veteran to stand down.

I believe that union recommendations in this contest with no clear front - runner will have some weight (as arguably they did in the last Deputy leadership contest but didn't in the Blair / Prescott / Beckett or Benn / Healey contests where ballots were held).

Tomorrow a new Speaker will be elected, with signs that the previous favourite - Tory MP John Bercow, who has overwhelming Labour backing but almost no support within his own ranks - may have been weakened by the surprise candidacy of Margaret Beckett, a former cabinet minister.

Beckett was seen as tainted by the expenses row after public fury at her gardening claims, but five potential candidates - including Bercow, who repaid more than # 1,400 he said he had wrongly claimed on office costs - have returned money.

On another day of drama at Westminster, four former Labour leaders - Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband - all said it was time for Mr Corbyn to stand down, as did David Cameron.

Instead of appointing Clarke to the Foreign Office, he replaced the incumbent, Jack Straw, with the environment secretary, Margaret Beckett, who expressed her own surprise at the move by reportedly saying: «Fuck, I'm stunned.»

Others Ian Austin (Dudley North) Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West) Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) Margaret Beckett (Derby South) Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South & Cleveland East) Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) Jenny Chapman (Darlington) Ann Coffey (Stockport) Yvette Cooper (Normanton Pontefract & Castleford) Neil Coyle (Bermondsey & Old Southwark) Mary Creagh (Wakefield) Stella Creasy (Walthamstow) Simon Danczuk (Rochdale) Jim Dowd (Lewisham West & Penge) Louise Ellman (Liverpool Riverside) Frank Field (Birkenhead) Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East) Caroline Flint (Don Valley) Harriet Harman (Camberwell & Peckham) Margaret Hodge (Barking) George Howarth (Knowsley) Tristram Hunt (Stoke - on - Trent Central) Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) Alan Johnson (Hull West & Hessle) Graham Jones (Hyndburn) Helen Jones (Warrington North) Liz Kendall (Leicester West) Dr Peter Kyle (Hove) Chris Leslie (Nottingham East) Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham & Morden) Alison McGovern (Wirral South) Bridget Phillipson (Houghton & Sunderland South) Jamie Reed (Copeland) Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East) Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West) Joan Ryan (Enfield North) Ruth Smeeth (Stoke - on - Trent North) Angela Smith (Penistone & Stocksbridge) John Spellar (Warley) Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston) Gareth Thomas (Harrow West) Chuka Umunna (Streatham) Keith Vaz (Leicester East) Phil Wilson (Sedgefield) John Woodcock (Barrow & Furness)

The 17 MPs are: Nigel Adams (Conservative); Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour); Margaret Beckett (Labour); Ben Bradshaw (Labour); Alex Burghart (Conservative); Deidre Brock (SNP); Simon Clarke (Conservative); Nic Dakin (Labour); Steve Double (Conservative); Simon Hoare (Conservative); Margaret Hodge (Labour); David Morris (Conservative); Jess Phillips (Labour); Chloe Smith (Conservative); Owen Smith (Labour); Steve Pound (Labour); Julian Sturdy (Conservative)

Faced by a choice of Tony Blair, John Prescott, and Margaret Beckett, every major union recommended their memberships vote for either Beckett or Prescott, and every single union membership voted for Blair... (but) every single union in 2007 that recommended a candidate (for the deputy leadership) delivered between 40 and 50 % of their union's vote to their favourite son or daughter.

Do we really need the commission that Margaret Beckett is to lead to look «in a forensic way» at the reasons for Labour's electoral defeat?

The options laid out by Margaret Beckett (which may be downloaded here) are as follows:

Dame Margaret Beckett, the Labour former foreign secretary, said Sir Ivan Rogers» resignation created a «crisis» for the Foreign Office.

The leadership contenders are not waiting for Beckett's findings to distance themselves from Miliband.

Ex-ministers Lord Heseltine, Harriet Harman, Chris Mullin, Margaret Beckett, Tessa Jowell, John Redwood, Frank Field, Tony Baldry and Gisela Stuart and home affairs committee chairman Keith Vaz have also delivered lectures.

Beckett's legacy of blunders is still being felt in the countryside today, yet she still sits around the Cabinet table.

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Her fellow Tory MP Sir Patrick Cormack, the former Labour minister Parmjit Dhanda, the deputy speaker Michael Lord and the cabinet veteran Margaret Beckett also threw their hats into the ring this week.

Margaret Beckett was acting leader after John Smith's 1994 death.

We've had statements supporting Brown from David Blunkett, Margaret Beckett, Tony Lloyd, John McFall and Geraldine Smith, but none from anyone in the cabinet.

The decision follows a review of parliamentary party rules and standing orders chaired by Margaret Beckett, previously reported here, prompted partly by the need to bring provision for gender balance into line with general practice in the party.

New Media and Democracy: Jeremy Browne, the Foreign Office minister, and Charlie Beckett, the media academic.

Mrs Beckett and Sir Menzies both found their claims scrutinised in the Daily Telegraph and sought to defend them on the programme, in which Tory frontbencher Theresa May also appeared.

In an emotional interview on the Today programme, former acting Labour leader Margaret Beckett urged Jeremy Corbyn to «stand aside».

John Prescott, who had stood at the 1992 deputy leadership election and lost to Beckett, stood again for both Leader and Deputy Leader.

Beckett would also serve both in the Shadow Cabinet and then the Cabinet throughout Blair's term as leader, eventually becoming the final of the three Foreign Secretaries of the Blair ministries.

Earlier former Labour minister Margaret Beckett fought back tears as she revealed she had been one of the 172 Labour MPs who backed a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn yesterday.

He was elected MP for Newcastle East in 1983, and was given his first front bench job by acting leader Margaret Beckett, who made him Shadow Leader of the Commons for a few months in 1994.

Margaret Beckett presented an eighteen - page report that had been put together by her task force.

For example, on communications, this is Beckett's recommendation,

The executive was faced with a very heavy agenda for the meeting because not only was there the much - heralded arrival of Margaret Beckett's Learning the Lessons taskforce report, but we were to hear from Alan Johnson who is masterminding our Labour In For Britain referendum campaign, and Kezia Dugdale, the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, and her team.

Commissioned by Harriet Harman in her second stint as acting leader, with Margaret Beckett - the only MP to have served in every Labour government since Wilson's in the 1970s — leading the drafting team, this report is steeped in the mores and perspectives of Labour's old guard.

Tags: deputy leadership election, Ed Balls, John Prescott, Kevin Meagher, Margaret Beckett, shadow chancellor

I would echo other commenters about the Margaret Beckett so - called report: it seems to be really shallow, obvious, and curiously a-political.

Dame Margaret Beckett, who voted for Owen Smith, says Jeremy Corbyn's «overwhelming» victory was «what a lot of people expected».

Late last month, the «no» campaign introduced its leaders: Margaret Beckett was named president; David Blunkett and Lord Prescott were given supporting roles, along with the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, and the Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, making it a truly crossbench affair.

As Labour considers the Beckett report and where it all went wrong for the party in the 2015 general election, one MP has been examining her own electoral failure.

Mrs Beckett, 63, also revealed that she was so surprised to be offered the role of foreign secretary that her initial response was a four - letter word beginning with «F».

Former foreign secretary Margaret Beckett says a change of tack is essential if Gordon Brown is to win the next general election.

The tour comes after Margaret Beckett's report into why Labour lost the 2015 election cited its failure to establish a «connection» with voters on immigration as one of the key factors.

By contrast government ministers Margaret Beckett and Stephen Timms - along with Conservative MP Andrew Pelling - claimed nothing in travel expenses.

Derby South is currently held by Margaret Beckett and she enjoys a projected majority over the second - placed Liberal Democrats of nearly 13,000.

Similarly, there is no return to front bench politics for sturdy attack - dogs like Margaret Beckett, cerebral thinkers such as Andrew Smith or strong media performers such as Harris himself.

In view of the way Blair is now seen by many activists, including those who — as Patrick Wintour says — either left in 2003 or were too young, it is worth noting that John Prescott and Margaret Beckett, both on the left, did better: they got 43 % of the college between them, including almost half the union votes.

Ms Beckett, who briefly led the party following the death of John Smith in 1994, struggled to hold back tears as she revealed she had been one of the 172 Labour MPs who backed a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn yesterday.

At the start of the House of Commons debate to authorise the replacement of Trident, [186] Margaret Beckett stated:

Labour big - hitters, including former Home Secretary Alan Johnson and ex-Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, were among those who spoke in favour of bombing.

And four former Labour leaders - Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman, Gordon Brown and Mr Miliband - all said it was time for Mr Corbyn to stand down, as did David Cameron.