Mr Crausby said: “The majority of Labour MPs wanted someone else but I think there is a mood of give him a chance”.
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“I say that a family that chooses not to work should not be better off than a family that chooses to work”.
COLCHESTER’s Labour leader has spoken of his disappointment after Jeremy Corbyn was selected as his party’s leader – but said it is a time to unite.
But Mr Corbyn now must wrangle a bitterly divided caucus, with seven members of his shadow cabinet resigning from the front bench.
Mr Corbyn also spoke out against controversial Government plans to crack down on strike ballots and union funding in the Trade Union Bill. His answer to the question was basically that he cared about it and “we will help”.
Corbyn, Labour’s most left-wing leader in decades, is widely expected to reverse his party’s support for the U.K.’s nuclear weapons, which are due to be upgraded next year.
Mr Corbyn has in the past called for the monarchy to be abolished but since winning the Labour leadership election in a landslide at the weekend, he has accepted becoming a member of the Queen’s privy council.
Benn’s comments were at odds with those of the party’s former business spokesman, Chuka Umunna, who on Sunday cited Corbyn’s views on Europe as one of the key reasons the pair had agreed he would not serve in the new leader’s top team.
He is a staunch socialist and even sang a socialist anthem after winning the Labour Party leadership race.
But then, once Corbyn had finished, it was the usual free-for-all – and the volume of the braying and shouting, together with the immature grandstanding, increased.
He added: “The issue surely is that we had a memorial for the Battle of Britain, I was there and I showed respect for it”.
She told James that where she lived she was “completely surrounded on all corners by new massive flat developments” – flats “for rich people” not affordable for anyone on an average wage.
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Republican Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire after remaining silent while David Cameron and others sang the anthem during a Battle of Britain commemoration at St Paul’s Cathedral. If I did that in Rochdale I would get hung, drawn and quartered.
