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However, to run for leader MPs need nominations from 34 colleagues. The support of MPs may also prove decisive in building a campaignâs momentum and swinging local party members behind a candidate. Labour now has 232 MPs, its lowest level since 1987. Of those, 226 have ties to the unions, and 147 to Unite specifically. Ties are defined as donations, membership or endorsements in leadership selections.
The leadership candidates needed the signatures of 35 MPs to make the ballot. Here's who backed whom. Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn have all made it onto the ballot paper for the Labour leadership race. Burnham, the bookies' favourite, squares off against Liz Kendall, from the party's modernising tendency, Cooper, from the party's centre, and Corbyn, from the party's left flank. The Labour leadership hopefuls needed 35 MPs to nominate them in order to run.