Who should be the new Labour party leader?

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Gordon Brown resigns today as the Labour party leader.

Alister Darling says he will not be standing for leadership so who do you think should take over?

I think David Miliband would make a good leader and a potentially good Prime Minister.

[driveace]

As long as he is not Scottish,then I dont care,the scottish I have worked with in Glasgow have NO Love for the English,and feel that the English have taken ALL their OIL revanue ,So Brown I dont think had a great love of the English ,especially the ladies of ROCHDALE!

[Rollo]

the scottish I have worked with in Glasgow have NO Love for the English,and feel that the English have taken ALL their OIL revanue

Most of the oil wells in the North Sea and off the Scottish coast are operated by ConocoPhillips which is Texan, Talisman Energy which is from Calgary and BHP which is Australian.

Do you work with ignorant people?

[Macd]

Do you work with ignorant people?

Or perhaps he is one? Generalising an entire country on a few people.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Do you work with ignorant people?

Or perhaps he is one?

Going off his claims that the Conservatives have a majority, I think he is.

[Rollo]

Nominally the leader of the Labour Party should be the same as the leader of the party in the Commons, but that's Harriet Harman who is by all accounts a flip-flopper.

I suppose that the most qualified person after Brown and Darling would be Jack Straw, but somehow I just don't see him becoming leader of the Party if it only expects to last a few months.

Can you really see anyone apart from Nick Clegg putting up their hand to be leader of a "rainbow coalition" though? You might as well make Janet Royall the Prime Minister and run it from the House of Lords on a temporary basis.

[Mark]

David Miliband would be my choice too.
The problem with Gordon Brown is that he doesn't have the charisma you need to be a Prime Minister in modern times. Tony Blair was the first to have it, and I dare say Nick Clegg and (shudder) David Cameron has it too, but Brown just hasn't.

I think Miliband comes across well and in this age of your personality being just as important as policy, that will be a big asset to the Labour party.

[Cooper_S]

Jon Cruddas could be a good unifier for the Labour Party. does not carry as much baggage as some of the other prime candidates.

[Captain VXR]

Anyone but Harriet Harman

[Cooper_S]

Anyone but Harriet Harman

be careful for what you wish for...