Deputy Leadership: Financial Times Straw Poll of MPs

This is a story from the Financial Times analysed over at Dave's Part. He also adds this:

UPDATE: That said, I've just noticed another FT story based on a BBC poll of Labour MPs. Seems that deputy leadership hopefuls Peter Hain, Hazel Blears and Harriet Harman all have the necessary 45 nominations or more, while Alan Johnson will announce tomorrow that he has more names in the bag than any of his rivals.

Cruddas, meanwhile, has just 24 backers. That, in other words, is the most support the unions can rustle up in the Parliamentary Labour Party, which says a lot about the state of play. And if anyone other than his dad is interested, Hilary Benn has only 16 MPs behind him.

That's about 270 accounted for. There are still enough unspent nominations floating around to finish off the other two. Possibly even for a seventh candidate. Will Michael Meacher have a pop?

Graphic from Guido Fawkes.