As reported today, candidate for the leadership in Scotland Kezia Dugdale has slammed UK leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn – claiming that he lacks the credentials to be Prime Minister and would leave Labour “carping from the sidelines”.
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Asked if he believed Mr Corbyn would win, he said: “Judging by the energy and enthusiasm of the audiences he’s had all around the country I think it’s a very strong prospect”.
In an article on the LabourList website Mr Graf said he was able to locate someone to take part in the event but added: “How could it be that the Labour Party, supposedly the party of working people, was not in relationship with a single minimum wage worker? Otherwise you have a decade or more of Tory rule”.
But Mr Morris said he was not surprised that Mr Corbyn appeared to be doing well.
Two weeks ago Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West, visited Connah’s Quay Labour Club.
Mr Burnham’s team have also said that the graduate tax will be considered in detail by a new Beveridge-style commission, which would look at who should cover the shortfall of the money needed by universities in the short-term. The scale of the challenge we face demands boldness and radicalism.
In Yorkshire a series of alternative proposals are being developed in response to Mr Osborne’s devolution offer including a single elected mayor for the whole of Yorkshire or adopting a number of mayors based on areas covering major cities and their neighbours.
“I think it was an illegal war, I’m confident about that, indeed (former UN secretary general) Kofi Annan confirmed it was an illegal war, and therefore he has to explain to that”, Corbyn said in an interview with BBC2’s Newsnight.
However, some have claimed that this is not representative of the attitude of paid-up Labour members and supporters, who will have the final say when ballot papers are sent out on August 15.
He overtakes Corbyn, whose economic policies came under fire this week from many in the Labour party, including the shadow chancellor Chris Leslie who labelled his ideas as “left wing starry-eyed”. “I am confident about that”, Corbyn told BBC’s Newsnight television programme.
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“There’s been too much personal attack, that’s what I don’t like – we need to stay united as a party and let the process develop properly”. There are reasons for caring about it, attending to those issues, rather than adopting ill thought through policies that, in the end, will hurt those on the lowest incomes, because those cost of living questions matter a massive amount.
