“But I hope and I expect it will be me”.
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The ex-shadow cabinet minister will take on Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Eagle.
The MP for Wallasey had a brick thrown through the window of her constituency office yesterday.
Mr Smith isn’t the only Labour MP who has vocally called for a second referendum to be run.
A recent poll of Labour Party members by YouGov found that any of Corbyn’s potential opponents would be unlikely to beat him in a leadership election.
“I’m in this contest to win it and that’s what I intend to do”.
“I think with party balance there’d be other people they’d be putting on instead of you, wouldn’t they, rather than me”, Wood shot back.
Shadow Welsh Secretary Mr Smith entered the fray this week – and will stand against Mr Corbyn and Angela Eagle.
“It was because they can not tolerate a socialist as the leader of the Labour party leading a socialist administration”.
“I put to him a series of alternatives as recently as two days ago – they have been rejected”.
At time of writing the membership stands at 770 members.
“The Labour Party can’t become the new nasty party for women, or indeed for anyone else”. I don’t want Labour in the gutter.
“It was understandable when the born again Blairites were plotting against Corbyn, and then it increased into the coup last week, the avalanche”.
“I refused to have any part in discussions, which have been destructive, from a small group of people on the right who, just like those on the left, it seems to me, are now prepared to let Labour split”.
Mr Smith is standing on a platform to the left of Ms Eagle but not as left wing as Mr Corbyn.
The vote for Mr Corbyn to get on the ballot automatically passed by 18 votes to 14 after a heated meeting that lasted nearly six hours.
The NEC’s decision will come as a major blow for the majority of Labour MPs.
“I want to see a vision for the country and a clear plan of how the Labour party will deal with the important issue of Brexit – so I am genuinely undecided at the moment”. Join as a registered supporter.
At stake is the future direction of Britain’s main opposition party.
John McTernan, Tony Blair’s former director of political operations, told Sky News that trade unions who voted with Mr Corbyn had “stabbed the party in the heart”.
Most Labour MPs have deserted the left-wing leader but he remains confident of grassroots membership support.
“It is bullying. It has absolutely no place in politics in the United Kingdom and it needs to end”, Eagle said about the incident.
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Michael Foster, whose family has given the party more than £400,000 (US$530,000) since 2010, is expected to bring the application at the High Court on Thursday afternoon.
