The retired Jewish businessman said he had been denounced for “plotting to falsely use the accusation of antisemitism” as part of a right-wing “conspiracy” to undermine Mr Corbyn.
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The veteran left-winger condemned operator Southern for failing to settle a long-running dispute with conductors and demanded renationalisation.
Now Mr Watson says he is looking at possibly bringing back the old policy. But they were let down by a leader who in just three weeks has done more to save his job than he did during the whole European Union referendum campaign.
‘Public ownership of our railways is needed now to fix the transport nightmare we are currently faced with, and we know there is overwhelming support among the British public for a people’s railway.
He insisted public ownership of the railways could raise enough money to cut rail fares by as much as 10%. (Shadow Chancellor Chained to a Radiator in the Basement Clause (14 B iii).) Peter Mandelson will reveal he has met Vladimir Putin to request he cuts off the oil supply to Jeremy Corbyn’s office, and Hilary Benn will announce he has hired a fleet of Tornados to bomb a Momentum branch meeting in Exeter.
“Our campaign will continue to make the positive case for democracy in our party and for Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to rebuild and transform Britain so that no-one and nowhere is left behind”.
A new group of leading Blairite figures has amassed a battle fund of more than £250,000 to fund campaigners against Jeremy Corbyn.
Speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Bragg said that he could not understand why the party was not talking about progressive ideas.
The folk singer-songwriter has admitted he is anxious Mr Corbyn is a “a kind of 20th century Labour man” as he warned the party against becoming “tribalist” and losing the “ability to represent ordinary working people”.
“It has nearly reached the stage that to be a Labour MP you need to have worked as a political aide, or adviser, been a lobbyist or worked in the media or law”.
A leading expert in politics at Oxford University has put the Labour Party’s current civil war under the spotlight and said the two divided sides need each other to save the party.
But Foster lauded a Court of Appeal ruling later in the week that effectively reintroduced a voting ban on almost 130,000 Labour members in the leadership election in what is seen as a disadvantage to Corbyn.
The Corbyn campaign said it was delighted with the endorsements.
He also suggested centrist political parties were now running scared of their party memberships.
“I simply want to ensure that organisations like the Alliance for Workers Liberty, who have instructed all their members to join the Labour Party and target our youth sections for recruitment, are dealt with under our rules”.
‘I don’t have a simple answer.
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In all, the eight Northern Irish Labour candidates in May’s Assembly election received a total of 1,577 first preference votes – fewer than one vote per party supporter in the Province.
