He said: “He demonstrated during the week on the most contentious issue we’ve dealt with so far, they had a majority amongst party members … it was a real endorsement of his leadership and we’ve just won one of the best by-election victories we’ve ever had”.
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A picture tweeted by Economist journalist Oliver Morton shows some supportive grafitti for the Labour leader daubed on a wall in the city’s Gare de l’Est area.
In his comments, Hunt called Stop the War a “really disreputable organization and I would hope that Jeremy would step back and not go to their fundraiser”.
The Labour leader – who was the Stop the War’s chair prior to his election as party leader in September – has been facing calls to pull out of the fundraising dinner for the group described by critics in the party as “really disreputable”.
On reports of online abuse, he said: “If a very, very small number of people behaved in a manner, trolling, which have been so-called bullying or harassing, obviously I and Momentum would absolutely condemn that 100%”.
Some of the 66 Labour MPs who backed bombing in Syria have complained of being subjected to online abuse since the vote.
Stop The War has said it has condemned terror atrocities, such as the Paris attacks, and has a democratic right to protest against military action.
“Stop the War is a democratic campaigning organisation and he has been a long-term supporter”, the spokesman said.
Despite being forced to grant a free vote in the Commons debate on Syria in the face of a threatened shadow cabinet revolt, he still saw the majority of his top team and the majority of Labour MPs vote with him in opposing military action.
The leaders of two major trade unions have warned Labour MPs not to oppose Jeremy Corbyn’s agenda for change.
A senior source told the Daily Express that shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, whose impassioned speech supporting bombing electrified the Commons, “is not long for the shadow cabinet”.
“The new leader was also elected with an overwhelming mandate on a political programme that seeks to take the party in a direction that reflects the current views of party members”, he wrote.
Margaret Beckett, Foreign Secretary in the last Labour government, said this: “I invite the House to consider how we would feel, and what we would say, if what took place in Paris had happened in London and if we explicitly asked France for support and France refused”.
Among the “smears” are an allegation, labelled “categorically untrue” by Mr Corbyn’s allies, that he briefly passed out due to stress.
“Most of the people sending threats aren’t even on the electoral roll”, she told Radio 5 live’s Pienaar’s Politics, “Trying to influence MPs when they can’t even sign up to vote for an MP is pretty poor”. We look forward to celebrating that fact with Jeremy this week.
In total there were 11 Shadow Cabinet members who voted for air strikes in Syria, but despite it being a free vote those who defied Jeremy Corbyn may now have to watch their back in a potential “revenge reshuffle”.
Mr Hunt, who decided not to serve under Mr Corbyn, said talk of a “purge” of opponents seemed a bit of a “Sunday story”.
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Shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith played down the suggestions that Mr Corbyn wanted to get rid of dissenters.
