Two other candidates are vying for the leadership - the current deputy leader Johann Lamont and Glasgow South MP Tom Harris.

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One of them, Tom Harris, a Glasgow MP and a former junior minister, is standing against two MSPs in Labour's Scottish leadership election, due in December.

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Major Tom Harris(ph), who trains the police here, says it's hard to get the police who live and work next to the militias to be independent of them.

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He has been copied by Ontario's Conservative premier, Mike Harris, among whose advisers is Tom Long, the third candidate to lead the Alliance.

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Despite a crop of promising home-grown players - such as Maynard's own son Tom, Gareth Rees, James Harris and Ben Wright - and some astute recruiting, Glamorgan endured another lacklustre season in 2009.

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One contender is Tom Long, a Toronto businessman who is Mr Harris's chief political strategist.

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She told this to other people, our friends, when through the press we heard the news that the actor, Rendall Harris, was making a name for himself in plays by Tom Stoppard and Tennessee Williams.

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Mr. HARRIS: (As Carl Fogaty) Why don't you ask Tom about his older brother Richie.

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To win, he would have to capture at least three-quarters of the support for Tom Long, the third candidate, an adviser to Ontario's premier, Mike Harris, whose campaign was tainted by his backers' over-zealous efforts to sign up new party members in unlikely corners of Quebec.

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