Corbyn also made clear his opposition to the UK’s involvement in the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, a day after Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced the country would extend its Iraqi air campaign against the yihadist group.
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A pledge to renationalise the railways “line by line” will be a central part of Andy Burnham’s Labour leadership manifesto.
Corbyn, however, has said that he “could well” be prime minister.
Mr Mullin said that he didn’t believe any of the other three candidates, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall offered Labour any better chance of wresting power from the Conservatives in the next general election.
However his campaign has captured the hearts and minds of many Labour members and supporters and he is now hot favourite to win with many bookmakers.
Like previous Labour leadership elections, an alternative vote system will be used for the leader and deputy leader, rather than a first past the post basis as used for the General Election.
Anyone wishing to vote for Ed Miliband’s replacement can pay £3 by next Wednesday to become a registered party supporter – a policy which is feared could be open to abuse.
“We know it’s not good enough for Merseyside to be a Labour stronghold”. “Instead, we have seen a withdrawal of support for renewable energy – which is where our future lies – and fracking being driven ahead at speed with scant regard for the views of the communities most affected”, the manifesto stated.
In a two-minute video to launch the manifesto he says his leadership will make Labour “the party that helps everybody get on in life”. But it indicated that existing free schools and academies would be left alone.
Mr Burnham said it was vital to “have a plan” for the public finances and the deficit but insisted Labour had to have a fundamentally different economic policy to the Tories if it wanted to cut through to voters. I will bring forward a new vision to reinvigorate it for the 21st century, based on true parity between academic and technical education.
“I am glad Mike Foster had the guts to tell them what they needed to hear, he is absolutely right to get involved”. So control over admissions will be put back in local hands.
He did not criticise Mr Corbyn by name but his comments are understood to be a reference to the Corbyn campaign.
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He said: “I’m accused of being a throwback to the 1980s, but I’ll go back one decade further and just say there are lessons to be learned from what that government was trying to do”.
