Mr Smith has obtained nominations from 88 Labour MPs and two MEPs, easily passing the threshold of 51 required to get on to the ballot paper.
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Labour moderates are rallying behind Mr Smith and have been encouraging people to sign up as Labour supporters so they can vote in the leadership ballot.
According to Labour’s website, Smith gathered 90 nominations. Jeremy has great Labour values and Jeremy still has still got a lot to say for the Labour party but I don’t think Jeremy is a leader.
He said: “I have worked closely with Owen and seen first hand how he would make an outstanding leader of the Labour Party”.
When Steve Bruce’s name started “trending” on social media, I automatically assumed he had made a decision to stand as another unity candidate in the Labour leadership contest.
John Gallagher, from the branch, said: “In this period of political turmoil there are significant aftershocks reverberating around the Labour Party and Conservatives as a outcome of the referendum”.
“Under Owen we will be a powerful united opposition in Parliament”. His values, his loyalty, his vision, his Socialist roots.
“I got involved when one of our founding members, Bob Lambert, said he was doing a demonstration and that’s how it got going”.
The suspension means the Labour Party regional office will take over administration of the local Constituency Labour Party. “I just wish Jeremy Corbyn would do the same”.
“A new kind of politics – people are crying out for that and Jeremy is the person to deliver it”.
But Mr Corbyn wanted to be added as a party to the proceedings as second defendant.
It is thought numerous new members have joined with the “express intention” of defying MPs and supporting Corbyn, says The Independent.
The Labour leader’s lawyers argued that his interest was “pressing and obvious”, saying that his personal perspective distinguished him from the members represented by Mr McNicol.
This is why I was shocked when I heard that my brother and I are not eligible to vote in the leadership election.
Mr Smith said that if he ousted Mr Corbyn from the leadership, he would like him to retain a prominent role in Labour.
The nominations-gathering process officially closes at 1600 GMT on Wednesday, triggering the formal contest. I suspect that there are many members of the opposition benches who might be familiar with an unscrupulous boss.
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He attended a state school before studying French and History at the University of Sussex.
