Martin Clarke, chief financial officer of roadside recovery giant AA and a former executive at the private equity firm Permira, told City A.M.in an interview yesterday that electing Corbyn would sever Labour’s ties with business.
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It recently rejected an application from Conservative MP Tim Loughton, who said he tried to become a registered supporter to highlight flaws in the system.
“Could some people who now say they support Corbyn draw back at the moment of decision — or, alternatively, does his bandwagon have further to roll?”
Jeremy Corbyn, the surprise frontrunner in Labour’s leadership race, has been accused by his rivals of trying to “turn back the clock” to the Seventies after suggesting that he would reinstate Clause Four, Labour’s historic commitment to the public ownership of industry.
I think that’s a very big issue for people across Surrey and Hampshire.
“I went to the hustings in Birmingham and Corbyn was head and shoulders above the others”.
“We have 800 names and there is no way we can check them all“.
Log onto www.labour.org.uk/w/labour-party-supporters by noon on Wednesday, August 12, choose how much you want to pay from just £3 and enter your details. Corbyn will reverse that.
The campaign teams of all four candidates attended a meeting yesterday designed to clear up confusion around how the competition would work, while Labour MP Simon Danczuk called for the contest to be re-run.
Unlike its counterparts in Stoke-on-Trent Central and South, which have backed Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham respectively, Stoke-on-Trent North CLP opted against lodging a supporting nomination for any candidate.
Not everyone is backing Mr Corbyn, however.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, which stood in 135 constituencies in May’s general election and includes the Socialist Workers Party, said reports of infiltration were down to “Blairite manoeuvres” against the Corbyn campaign.
Bookmakers cut their odds that Jeremy Corbyn will win the United Kingdom opposition Labour Party’s leadership election after a YouGov Plc poll showed another surge in support for the anti-austerity candidate.
Jeremy Corbyn enjoys huge grassroots popularity. The current Government just seems to be targeting the poor and disabled.
But not all Labour supporters in the area are so enamoured of Mr Corbyn and his left-wing policies, with many fearing a Corbyn victory could leave the party split and frozen out of power, as it was in the 1980s.
Registration for Labour’s ballot closes at noon today, and voting papers will arrive at the homes of party members next week.
It was a “car crash, and more”, he said.
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One of the party’s major donors also spoke to the press, bemoaning his inability to simply buy the leader that he wanted.
