The comments come after a poll from YouGov put Corbyn on 43%, bookies’ favourite Andy Burnham on 26%, Yvette Cooper on 20% and Liz Kendall on 11% on first preference votes.
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“Labour shouldn’t despair. We can win again”.
Party grandee Lord Mandelson warned that Labour’s future as a viable party of government was under threat.
Ms Kendall admitted she was “always going to be the outsider” because of her lack of experience, but said she “loved her party” too much to give up and consign the party to a generation out of power. “But at the same time donations from trade unions could go up”. “I welcome the debate”, Corbyn said. This is a guy who was Chief of Staff to the humiliated Scottish Labour Party leader Jim Murphy.
The fact that McTernan is so lacking in self-awareness isn’t the most important thing though, the more important thing is the way that the heavily biased mainstream media have picked up on his anti-Corbyn tirade and reported it as if it was the brilliant advice of a few kind of sage and insightful oracle, rather than impotent ranting of the hopelessly discredited laughing stock that he actually is.
He said that there was a “Farage effect” where the left-winger was getting more attention from the media because of his sharper views.
Corbyn also received qualified backing on Thursday from the former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott.
Ms Cooper’s allies are privately anxious that Mr Corbyn’s surprise lead in the contest could benefit Mr Burnham.
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a desperate plea to Labour activists not to elect hard left leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn. “But just the way people stop me on the street, he has electrified this campaign”, he said.
In his remarks, Mr. Blair stated that those who backed Mr Corbyn in their hearts should get a transplant was “unacceptable“.
Ms Cooper was seen as prime ministerial by 22 per cent of all those questioned by Ipsos MORI while 34 per cent did not think she was. “It’s nonsense, ‘ says one Burnham source”. Cooper’s net score is -12, Kendall’s -14 and Corbyn’s -19.
Labour lost power in 2010, and was trounced by the Conservatives on May 7 in an election polls had predicted would be close. “He has no authority”. Nearly a quarter of Labour lawmakers rebelled this week and voted against the government’s planned welfare cuts, despite an order from interim leader Harriet Harman to abstain.
Speaking in the LBC hustings, she said: “My fear is that what you are doing is falling into a Tory trap, saying that somehow Labour’s public spending on schools, hospitals and Sure Start was such a big problem you had to apologise”.
Liz Kendall has refused to quit the Labour leadership race despite her dismall poll showing and pressure to step aside.
Labour is seeking a new leader to rebuild the party after losing May’s General Election to the Conservative party, and left-wing candidate Corbyn’s message seems to have found strong support among party members, according to media reports Wednesday.
When Jeremy Corbyn joined the race to become the next Labour leader he did not exude confidence about his prospects, admitting he was only entering the contest to create a “policy debate”.
Liverpool was the scene of one of the fiercest battles in Labour party history in the 1980s when then-leader Neil Kinnock confronted “militant” members.
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Neil Coyle, who also backed him in June, said: “I don’t think he is credible and I think he knows that”. “The last five years have left us with a bad legacy to overcome with the existence of the Labour party as an effective electoral force now at stake”.
