John McDonnell has announced he will not be standing in the Labour Leadership race, this is no great surprise as he was not actually able to gain enough support with only Gordon Brown as an opponent. He has given his support to Diane Abbott, although it still remains to be seen if his 16 supporters will follow suit, by my calculations though this will leave Ms Abbott on 27 so still 6 short of getting past today's deadline.
D. Midland had said he will give his vote to anyone who is a vote short, which looks like it could be a toss-up between Ms Abbott and self styling class warrior Andy Burnham
Well at least we will know who is standing today. I am predicting that they will both scrape through at the end.
