until 2040<\/a>, he is among the most prominent national politicians. The present prime minister also did a stint in Khan’s role before moving on to better things.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLisa Nandy:<\/strong> Soft left favourite Nandy has looked a tad out of place as shadow foreign secretary, happier talking about towns than tanks. Could she be the unity candidate that Starmer isn’t proving to be?<\/p>\n\n\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey:<\/strong> Sacked by Starmer for tweeting approval of an Independent interview with a lefty actress who said something dubious about the Israeli military, Long-Bailey has every motive for revenge. Also, she stood last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDavid Miliband:<\/strong> Leading the natural party of opposition may be a step down from running an international refugee charity, but he’s never exactly dismissed the idea. The other brother may prove the king across the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTony Blair:<\/strong> Every few months a story circulates that Labour’s only election-winning leader this century is plotting a comeback, like some aged French politician without the mistresses. Could the next leadership contest be his time?<\/p>\n\n\n\nJeremy Corbyn:<\/strong> Jez didn’t want to become leader the first time, but that proved no barrier. He would have to get the whip back though.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFurther suggestions in the comments…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Questions over Keir Starmer’s leadership will die down over the next few weeks, but the local elections have hurt his authority. It’s also never too early to speculate on who could head up the Labour party next, and several candidates have already announced themselves, explicitly or otherwise. As such, Marchamont has drawn up a shortlist:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5262,"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}