The two men, who are being named as Bobby Smith and Martin Matthews, climbed onto the Labour leader’s roof at around 1000 a.m. (BST) in protest against Corbyn for failing to listen to them on the issue of access rights for dads.
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Jeremy Corbyn has seen his odds of retaining the Labour leadership cut after his first head-to-head with his sole challenger Owen Smith yesterday evening (4 August).
Mr Smith shared videos on social media showing police closing off the street in north London and the pair talking to “negotiators in Corbyn’s house” through a skylight.
He insisted he was not part of a coup or plot against Mr Corbyn, but said he has “lost faith” in the leader’s ability to hold the party together.
He accused Mr Corbyn of presiding over an increasingly fractious Labour Party and “sloganising” rather than developing effective policies that would lead them back to power.
The veteran socialist takes on Owen Smith, a former member of his top team, in the first of several leadership hustings ahead of a postal vote by members that will see the victor crowned on September 24.
We are not behaving like comrades to each other in this party.
I don’t think we can win, Jeremy, at the moment.
“I like Owen. I always thought he would be a future leader of the Labour Party. I reach out to all of the members of the parliamentary party, if re-elected I will be appointing a broad Shadow Cabinet as I have before, and I will be encouraging every Labour MP to work with the Shadow team on taking part”, he said.
Jeremy Corbyn has put full employment throughout the United Kingdom at the heart of his bid for re-election as Labour leader, as he launched 10 pledges to “transform and rebuild Britain”.
But a number of the region’s MPs have nominated rival candidate, former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith, who hopes to replace him.
Turning to Corbyn he added: “I know you’re radical, I’m radical, but I want us to be radical in government”.
We shouldn’t be going into a leadership election saying, “Vote for me or some of my supporters will split the party”.
He said: “I am the underdog in this fight, there’s no doubt about that”.
The leadership contest result will be announced on September 24.
He criticised the Tories for their “failed austerity model of turbo Thatcherism”, accusing them of living “in a different world”.
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“Without being able to win and put our principles into practice, I don’t see that we are going to be able to do anything other than protest”.
