BRISTOL’S three Labour MPs will all back Owen Smith in the contest to be the next Labour leader.
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Poking fun at his precarious position at the top of the Labour party, she skewered Jeremy Corbyn with a jibe about “unscrupulous bosses”.
Each person has paid £25 to sign up – netting the party a cool £4.5million.
Meanwhile, a Labour donor has launched a legal challenge after the party’s National Executive Committee decided that Mr Corbyn could stand again for leadership without MPs’ support.
She said some people in the country might have experienced “a boss that doesn’t listen to his workers”.
The party now faces the mammoth process of vetting the applications for duplicates or people who do not share Labour’s values before ballot papers are sent out.
In one of the most striking moments, she mocked embattled Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has been referred to as Britain’s Bernie Sanders.
YouGov poll of Labour members: Corbyn 54% / Eagle 21% / Smith 15%.
He said: “I have worked closely with Owen and seen first hand how he would make an outstanding leader of the Labour Party”.
A High Court claim brought by Labour donor Michael Foster, a former parliamentary candidate, is now against one named defendant – the party’s general secretary Iain McNicol, who is being sued in a representative capacity.
She said there was a “narrow gap” between her and Smith but said it was in the interest of the party for there to be a single candidate.
‘With this campaign that we have coming up now with Jeremy Corbyn.
In a devastating assault that left Mr Corbyn visibly rattled, she echoed a Tory advertising campaign from the 1990s, saying: ‘In my years here in this House I’ve long heard the Labour party asking what the Conservatives party does for women.
Steve McCabe, Labour MP for Selly Oak, said: “What we need is somebody to rescue the Labour Party and Owen is equipped to do that”.
However, she sidestepped a question from the Labour leader when he sought to challenge her about comments made by new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
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In a poll this week, it was suggested that Mr Corbyn would comfortably beat him with 56 per cent of the grassroot membership still backing the incumbent.
