Voting on the leadership and deputy-leadership of the Labour Party has just closed. And, as an interim guide to form, I've checked up on the traffic generated on this blog by the portraits I wrote of the various candidates. There are, it has to be said, no surprises.
The share of the total number of page views achieved by each candidate is as follows:
Leader:
Jeremy Corbyn 58%
Andy Burnham 15%
Yvette Cooper 14%
Liz Kendall 13%
Deputy leader:
Angela Eagle 28%
Stella Creasy 26%
Caroline Flint 18%
Tom Watson 16%
Ben Bradshaw 13%
The order in the leadership category reflects the result that pretty much everyone expects, though I want to put on record one last time my dissenting view: I still think Yvette Cooper is going to win. I'm not sure what conventional wisdom says about the deputy leadership, but I believe Tom Watson is still favourite.
If it goes to form, then, by this time on Saturday, the Labour Party will be led by Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson, two white men with an average age of 57, who both came into politics as unelected advisers to trade unions. Let no one say that the party hasn't embraced modern Britain in all its wondrous diversity.
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