Some reports suggest Marta Andreasen is keen to stand against Neil Kinnock's wife, MEP Glenys Kinnock.
Mr Kinnock will take up the post in November, when he leaves the European Commission.
Mr Kinnock said he was a multilingual moderniser and manager with huge experience and intelligence.
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"Don't suppose Kinnock really wants a censored press either" tweets David Jones MP in response.
Since her election, Mrs Kinnock has taken an increasing interest in less developed parts of the world.
Compare that with the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock falling into the sea in Brighton in 1983.
Lord Kinnock will be attending the funeral of a former Labour councillor in his old Islwyn constituency instead.
As Neil Kinnock and John Major found to their cost, the paper's campaigns can be ruthless and relentless.
Lady Kinnock said the situation arose "inadvertently" and the government would introduce legislation to clear up the matter.
In the debate former Labour Party leader Lord Kinnock attacked the Conservative drive to repatriate powers from Brussels.
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Lord Kinnock's office said he had already accepted an invitation to the funeral of former Labour councillor Olga Griffiths.
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Lord Kinnock - who led Labour from 1983 until 1992 - was until recently one of Britain's EU commissioners.
He will be known Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty - after his former constituency.
The change between Thatcher and Major wrong-footed Labour, with Neil Kinnock later calling her his party's "greatest electoral asset".
Neighbours in San Gimignano include Mr Blair's predecessor Neil Kinnock who has a holiday home in the medieval town.
Mr Kinnock, now European Transport Commissioner, and wife Glenys, a member of the European Parliament, are reportedly arriving next week.
The seat was Bedwellty, where Mr Yeo won more than 5, 000 votes, coming second to the Labour candidate, Neil Kinnock.
Referring to recent raids by South Wales Police, Mrs Kinnock said she was pleased officers "so active" in catching traffickers.
Senior MPs and the former Labour leader, Lord Kinnock, are unveiling an alternative education paper at a meeting in parliament tonight.
Bluebirds fan Lord Kinnock hosted the party, which was attended by owner Vincent Tan, manager Malky Mackay and captain Mark Hudson.
Even so, Neil Kinnock still managed to emerge victorious in local elections nearly every year that he was Labour's opposition leader.
Mrs Kinnock said the event had sprung from a conversation she had with the Disability Rights Commissioner for Wales, Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick .
The paper ridiculed Mr Kinnock as the "huff and puff man", saying his first parliamentary term in charge had been a "sad disappointment".
She says she would welcome the chance to fight Mrs Kinnock politically and raise the agenda of financial reform within the European Union.
Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pedro Solbes, Administration Commissioner Neil Kinnock and Budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer are all seen as sharing some responsibility by MEPs.
After all, Neil Kinnock's Labour Party did better than Ed Miliband's has done and yet he went on to lose to John Major.
But last month Britain's minister for Europe, Glenys Kinnock, caused a sensation when she was quoted as implying that he had Britain's official backing.
Lady Kinnock, a former member of the European Parliament, had been a minister for about five minutes when she was asked about Mr Blair.
It has been a long journey for the new Lord Kinnock from his earliest days as a rebellious youngster in the south Wales valleys.
But in the final week of the election campaign a series of devastating personal attacks on Mr Kinnock seemed to deter enough potential supporters.
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