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Andy Burnham is now nearing a year as the most popular member of the Shadow Cabinet with LabourList readers, but he’s now getting competition from two newer members of the shadow cabinet in the form of Jon Cruddas and Tom Watson. There’s greater flux in the rankings this month than in recent months – the biggest winner of that being Jon Trickett who surges seven places upwards, with Douglas Alexander, Caroline Flint being the biggest movers in the opposite direction. The bottom of the table remains as settled as Burnham’s position at the top – with Ivan Lewis and Liam Byrne remaining in the bottom two places.
The full table is below:
| 1 | Andy Burnham | (-) |
| 2 | Jon Cruddas | (Up 3) |
| 3 | Tom Watson | (Up 4) |
| 4 | Chuka Umunna | (Down 1) |
| 5 | Yvette Cooper | (Down 3) |
| 6 | Hilary Benn | (-) |
| 7 | Ed Balls | (Down 3) |
| 8 | Rachel Reeves | (-) |
| 9 | Sadiq Khan | (Up 3) |
| 10 | Angela Eagle | (Up 1) |
| 11 | Harriet Harman | (Down 1) |
| 12 | Emily Thornberry | (Up 2) |
| 13 | Douglas Alexander | (Down 4) |
| 14 | Tessa Jowell | (Up 2) |
| 15 | Maria Eagle | (-) |
| 16 | Jim Murphy | (Down 3) |
| 17 | Jon Trickett | (Up 7) |
| 18 | Liz Kendall | (Down 1) |
| 19 | Owen Smith | (Up 1) |
| 20 | Vernon Coaker | (Down 1) |
| 21 | Mary Creagh | (Down 3) |
| 22 | Michael Dugher | (Up 3) |
| 23 | Margaret Curran | (-) |
| 24 | Rosie Winterton | (Up 2) |
| 25 | Caroline Flint | (Down 4) |
| 26 | Stephen Twigg | (Down 4) |
| 27 | Ivan Lewis | (-) |
| 28 | Liam Byrne | (-) |
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