Without looking, whom do you think the bookmakers have as favourite for the next Labour leader?

[muriel_volestrangler]

It surprised me. They all agree on this.

Link for when you want to look: http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-labour-leader

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Mrs. Duggar?

It's just a guess.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Does Ed Balls have a brother

named Harry?

[LeftishBrit]

6. No, but we could have had a Prime Minister called Major-Ball...

if his father hadn't inconsiderately lopped (castrated?) the name so that he was just Major. With a few Major Balls-ups.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. I thought Andy Burnham

I am surprised by the "favourite" and have no idea what it is based on.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I've no idea either; but they all agree, and the odds are fairly clear for all of them

They must all base it on something - it could be the others' odds influencing them all, I suppose, but they disagree about the order of the rest, so they're all putting at least some individual thought into it. Still far from evens, of course, so it's not as if they think it's a done deal.

[LeftishBrit]

5. Surprised

The Tory and LibDem predictions were what I'd have expected - I am not sure that I think that these are going to be the next leaders, but they'd be the first to come to mind. But as regards Labour leader, I thought of either Andy Burnham or Alan Johnson (the latter because some rebel MPs had been proposing him as an alternative to Ed Miliband). But I have to say that there doesn't really seem to be any one obvious person.

However, the bookies are often more accurate in their predictions than the media, so we shall see!

[Drew Peacock]

7. Would have said, Chuka Umanna but the question should be when not who