{"id":21,"date":"2020-01-31T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/om2.philclerkin.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:20:02","slug":"starmer-odds-cut-as-he-takes-labour-leader-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/media-journalism\/starmer-odds-cut-as-he-takes-labour-leader-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer odds cut as he takes Labour leader odds"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nSir Keir Starmer has seen his odds cut further as he continues to be the firm favourite to win the Labour leadership election.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe former shadow Brexit Secretary was always thought to be favourite amongst the party\u2019s MPs given his tendency to be less radical than departing leader Jeremy Corbyn \u2013 but he has been gaining more and more support in the grassroots including leading union Unison.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nStarmer is now as short as 1\/4 to win, ahead of his nearest rival \u2013 who is seen as Rebecca Long-Bailey, very much the candidate who would follow the Corbyn party line and has the support of Labour\u2019s biggest campaign group Momentum.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLisa Nandy and&nbsp;Emily Thornberry are also still battling to take charge, but look to have big challenges on their hands to take over.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton commented: \u201cThis is very much a two-horse race with two very different candidates.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cSir Keir is very much more to the centre than Jeremy Corbyn, but he has also won strong union support \u2013 hence his odds coming into 1\/4.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cBut at 4\/1, Rebecca Long-Bailey \u2013 the left-wing candidate \u2013 still looks a very good price, as she is the Momentum candidate and their power in the grassroots can\u2019t be underestimated.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cThe odds suggest this is over, but we are not so sure.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>Next Labour Party Leader\r\n<\/strong>Keir Starmer 1\/4\r\nRebecca Long-Bailey 4\/1\r\nLisa Nandy 9\/1\r\nEmily Thornberry 50\/1\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>*Odds correct at time of writing<\/strong>\r\n\r\nSpokesman Peter Watton is available for further comment or one-on-one interviews on this subject or anything connected with a betting market \u2013 for more information please contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:press@oddsmonkey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press@oddsmonkey.com<\/a>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nYou can also check out all our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest Press Releases&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 which you are free to use\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Keir Starmer has seen his odds cut further as he continues to be the firm favourite to win the Labour leadership election. The former shadow Brexit Secretary was always thought to be favourite amongst the party\u2019s MPs given his tendency to be less radical than departing leader Jeremy Corbyn \u2013 but he has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[5046,6438],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[4591,7368,6473,9136,6353,10138,10136,10137,10141,2739,1639,10140,10134,2854,5359,10135,8276,8275,10139,1796],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6028,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/6028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}