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Old 10-05-2015, 16:38   #31
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Re: Who will lead the Labour Party?

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
Thing with Jarvis is just that he seems to look and carry himself completely different from the identikit politicians after Blair. As I mentioned before the fact he has had a distinguished career in the armed forces, on the front lines as well, does him no harm at all.

Kendall is another one who is undoubtedly a centrist (a.k.a Blairite) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Kendall
Apparently what marks Jarvis down in the eyes of some of his colleagues is that he still reads his speeches verbatim in the Commons. He'd never get away with that as leader of the opposition.
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