But he repeated claims made last year and nicked Tory housing pledges like the vow to “build a million new homes in five years”. The 34-year-old added that “if you’ve seen the news he seems to be flying around the country talking to the same 2,000 people when he should be fighting issues”.
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Meanwhile, Mr Smith has won his first trade union endorsements from Community and the Musicians’ Union.
Ms Evangelou, from Enfield, north London, said she has been a Labour voter all her life but had only joined the party because she supports Mr Corbyn’s “Labour values”. He is one of the most ambitious career politicians I have met. As soon as we had the franchise, it was our job to go around the railings and seize power from within.
Smith told Corbyn: “We are 14% behind the Tories under Theresa May”.
“The prosperity that a few enjoy is not shared by the many, our economic model in Britain is broken”, said the Labour leader.
“I have no problems with Jeremy Corbyn’s principles or the way that he operates but I am not so sure he is a future Prime Minister”, he said.
“A commitment to gender equality should underpin the work of the Labour Party, and if Corbyn is serious about making it a priority he must now show exactly how he will take his plans forward”.
Given existing plans and direction we are seeing broadband coverage move in the United Kingdom, one can only assume that the speech writer really meant to say we will invest in more Fibre to the Premises to catch up with other European countries.
Mr McDonnell accused Mr Smith of “advocating the policies that Jeremy Corbyn was elected on” and there is overlap with the infrastructure fund, a ban on zero hours contracts and benefit changes.
Dismissing the idea of a party split in a scathing response after setting out his 10-policy leadership vision, Mr Corbyn suggested Labour MPs who quit would be betraying the people who voted for them.
Sparking cheers, he challenged Mr Smith: “What I don’t understand is how you can complain about disunity in the party when you and others are the ones who resigned from the shadow cabinet at the very point when we could have taken it to them”.
Some grassroots members had moved to deselect Wallasey MP and former Labour leadership contender Angela Eagle MP, whose office had also suffered a smashed window purportedly in response to her opposition to Mr Corbyn.
The panel, which included Corbyn, said: “We believe therefore that the best interests of the child should remain the sole test applied by the courts to any decision on the welfare of children in the family justice system”.
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A survey showed on Friday (5 August) that Britain’s labour market entered “freefall” after the vote to leave the European Union, with the number of permanent jobs placed by recruitment firms last month falling at the fastest pace since May 2009. “That is the unfortunate awful truth”.
