For the fourth time in a row, Andy Burnham retains his position at the head of the LabourList Shadow Cabinet rankings – or in other words, Burnham has been your pick of the shadow cabinet now for around six months. An impressive feat.
Meanwhile Yvette Cooper retains her lock on second place, Ed Balls is up 3 places since our last poll (as Labour starts to pull ahead of the Tories in national polling on the economy), and Jon Cruddas (Labour’s new Policy Chief) is in at Number 5 – a popular choice.
Further down the table, Tessa Jowell is up 5 places (an Olympics bounce?), and there’s plenty of fluidity in the rankings as those outside of the top 10 jostle for position. Meanwhile at the bottom, Liam Byrne and Ivan Lewis (who despite speculation both held on to their shadow cabinet briefs) are still propping up the table, but appear as firmily rooted to the bottom of the rankings as Burnham and Cooper are to the top.
The full rankings, and the change in position since the last survey, are below.
| 1 | Andy Burnham | (-) |
| 2 | Yvette Cooper | (-) |
| 3 | Ed Balls | (Up 3) |
| 4 | Chuka Umunna | ( Down 1) |
| 5 | Jon Cruddas | (New) |
| 6 | Tom Watson | (Down 2) |
| 7 | Hilary Benn | (Down 2) |
| 8 | Rachel Reeves | (Down 1) |
| 9 | Douglas Alexander | (Down 1) |
| 10 | Harriet Harman | (-) |
| 11 | Jim Murphy | (Down 2) |
| 12 | Sadiq Khan | (Up 3) |
| 13 | Angela Eagle | (Down 2) |
| 14 | Emily Thornberry | (Down 2) |
| 15 | Maria Eagle | (Down 2) |
| 16 | Liz Kendall | (Down 2) |
| 17 | Tessa Jowell | (Up 5) |
| 18 | Vernon Coaker | (Up 1) |
| 19 | Caroline Flint | (Down 2) |
| 20 | Stephen Twigg | (Down 4) |
| 21 | Mary Creagh | (-) |
| 22 | Owen Smith | (New) |
| 23 | Margaret Curran | (Up 2) |
| 24 | Michael Dugher | (Down 4) |
| 25 | Jon Trickett | (Down 2) |
| 26 | Rosie Winterton | (Down 2) |
| 27 | Ivan Lewis | (-) |
| 28 | Liam Byrne | (-) |
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