Timeline Monday: Kennedy resigns over No 10 “smears against colleagues” UPDATE: Full list of comers and goers; UPDATE: Full Ministerial appointments

Anand Menon

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TODAY’S MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS:

(The Queen has signified her intention of conferring a peerage on Glenys Kinnock.)

DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS
Pat McFadden
Lord Drayson (jointly with the Ministry of Defence)
David Lammy
Rosie Winterton (jointly with the Department for Communities, Local Government and the Regions)
Lord Davies (jointly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
Kevin Brennan

(Cont…)

HM TREASURY
Stephen Timms, Financial Secretary
Phil Woolas (jointly with the Home Office)

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Lord Malloch-Brown
Lord Davies (jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
Ivan Lewis
Glenys Kinnock

MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
Michael Wills
Maria Eagle

HOME OFFICE
David Hanson
Phil Woolas (jointly with HM Treasury)

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Jim Fitzpatrick

DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Gareth Thomas

DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
John Healey
Rosie Winterton

DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES
Dawn Primarolo
Vernon Coaker

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Lord Hunt
Joan Ruddock

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Gillian Merron
Mike O’Brien
Phil Hope

NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE
Paul Goggins

CABINET OFFICE
Angela Smith

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Bill Rammell
Lord Drayson (jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT
Sadiq Khan

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
Jim Knight
Angela Eagle

PoliticsHome has a count of those who have criticised the PM or called for him to resign, and those who have supported him (* resigned).

Overtly critical of Gordon Brown/calling for new leader:
James Purnell*, Caroline Flint*, Lord Falconer, Paul Farrelly, Graham Allen, Barry Sheerman, Siobhan McDonagh, Meg Munn, Mark Fisher, Baroness Prosser, Lord Soley, Nick Raynsford, Jane Kennedy

Ones to watch what they say in the coming days:
Hazel Blears*, Margaret Beckett*, Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn, John Reid, Stephen Byers, Frank Field, Patricia Hewitt, Ruth Kelly, Lord Desai, Margaret Hodge, Gerald Kaufman, John McFall, Ian Austin

Cabinet Ministers still silent since Purnell’s resignation:
Alistair Darling, Ed Balls

Statements of support for Gordon Brown:
Jack Straw, Jim Knight, Andy Burnham, John Hutton, Geoff Hoon, Shaun Woodward, Liam Byrne, Ian Pearson, Sadiq Khan, Barbara Follett, Margaret Beckett, Peter Kilfoyle, John Prescott, David Blunkett, Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Harriet Harman, Peter Mandelson, Alan Johnson, Jack Straw, Tessa Jowell, Douglas Alexander, David Miliband, Shaun Woodward, Jim Murphy, Ken Livingstone, John Healey, John Denham, Bill Rammell, Beverly Hughes*, Tom Watson*, John Hutton*, Paul Murphy*, Geoff Hoon*, John Cruddas, Tony Lloyd

8am: Labour’s European election share is at 16%.

8am: Harriet Harman tells BBC Radio 4: “it was a dismal result. We are dismayed by the rejection the voters have delivered us.”

** 9.30am: Junior Minister for the Environment Jane Kennedy resigns her post, unable to affirm her loyalty to the PM. **

10am: Calls for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown’s leadership.

** 11:30am: Interview with Jane Kennedy: **

“I was aksed to give an assurance that I would support Gordon Brown, in order to remain in the government. I wasn’t able to give that assurance so I have not been reappointed.

I’ve been unhappy for sometime about smears against colleagues, about the undermining of colleagues and friends orchestrated by Number 10. I can’t support it and I believe the Labour Party is part of reason for the rejection that people have indicated, and it’s a rejection of that kind of politics. I can’t distinguish between those around Gordon Brown smearing and Gordon Brown himself. It’s how politics is driven forward by Gordon and the people around him.

I fought against Militant in the 1980s and helped the Labour Party drive them out, because I was applled at their conduct: the bullying, the threats and the intimidation. I can’t stand by and say I am content when that is still happening. Everybody who is active in politics in Westminster knows what I’m alluding to.

We’ve never had the chance as a PLP to discuss the matters that arose out of the Damian McBride incident. My view is – and the view of many activists in my constituency – Gordon isn’t able to get our message across. That’s why voters are turning against us – his style, the type of politics he engages. My unhappiness is with the style of politics that Labour is exhibiting.

I want to find a different way to present the Labour party to the people. People are rejecting the way, the style, the image of our party. We need to bring about a different conversation so we can regain people’s trust.

Gordon himself has said he wants to fight on: my fear is that will be to the bitter end of the Labour Party. We are now fighting for the future of the party.

You reach a point where you have to ask yourself “can I as a minister go out and say Gordon Brown is the right man to lead Labour into the next election?” I found myself unable to answer that question. I have come to that view alone, after a long debate with myself. This is the point we need to listen to the message and turn the corner, and give the Labour Party a fighting chance of winning back that support.

I think GB should say he has listened to the voters and that he should step aside. During that time afterwards, those who have the ambition to lead the party and to lead Britiain can set out their ideas for how they would lead.”

6pm: Meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party

7pm: Progress event with Stephen Byers, Ben Bradshaw, Steve Richards: Focus on the Fourth Term.

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