Mr Corbyn said it was wrong to ignore the exploitation of workers and the degradation of our environment, “or tax dodging by multinationals, which creates an unfair advantage over local businesses”.
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The oil on canvas portrait was painted by Killearn-artist Anne H Mackintosh soon after Labour’s 1997 general election landslide, when Dewar was returned as MP for Glasgow Anniesland and appointed Tony Blair’s secretary of state for Scotland – tasked with delivering devolution.
‘Opinion polls bear this out: better off people are no less likely to support higher taxes.
“Many of us have spent our entire lives campaigning against nuclear weapons, we have got to win people over to the idea that a nuclear-free world is possible, that they are not a defence but an ever-present and costly danger, not just to us but to the entire planet”, he added.
Another 18 current and former members of the national council of Left Unity – which includes the Communist Party of Great Britain and the global Socialist Network among its unofficial backers – have also joined.
Labour has so far insisted the contest will proceed as planned and that it has succeeded in weeding out people who are not true Labour supporters.
MPs have been told to check lists of new members for known opponents.
He also rejected the suggestion he was “unelectable”, highlighting his eight election wins in Islington North, although the constituency is a safe Labour seat.
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His plan for success on the more challenging national battleground is to tackle apathy through “straight-talking politics”. “I think he saw an equivalence between the British Government’s armed forced and republican terrorists which I think anyone with a balanced view in Northern Ireland could hardly agree with”.
Mr Brown, who is backing Yvette Cooper, said: “There are obvious shortcomings in the method of electing the new leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party“.
It says strong measures are being taken to ensure only those who support the party will be allowed to vote with 45 officials working full-time sifting through all the applications.
Mrs Barker said that Mr Corbyn offers “unity” and “hope”, something she said is “desperately needed” in the party. Our parliamentary system is about opposition as much as it’s about the party in power.
When asked for a fifth time, the 66-year-old said: “I feel we will have to do this later you know” before the line went dead. “But I find it rather sad when I see farmland being taken over by solar energy generation, thus using crop space or grazing space, while nearby there’s acres and acres of roofs on warehouses and other things which are not being used for generation”.
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Alan Johnson warned Labour must “end the madness” of thinking Mr Corbyn should be leader.
