Singer and Labour activist Billy Bragg has denied withdrawing his support for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, despite warning the party risks becoming “tribalist” under Corbyn. But among non-voters and supporters of other major parties – whose votes Labour will need to attract – Mr Smith was ahead. This has caused tensions between the two as Corbyn has criticized Smith for causing disunity within the Labour Party.
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Criticism of the embattled Labour leader has been mounting in the wake of the June 23 vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
Moving the UK’s railways into public ownership would release cash to improve services and lead to lower regulated fares by as much as 10%, according to research commissioned by the TUC and cited by Mr Corbyn’s leadership campaign.
The problem is the bulk of career Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) MPs like Owen Smith, who is, standing against Corbyn detest his democratic election because as they only originated from the dregs of Blairite New Labour they were only elected as uncontested Labour candidates in their constituencies because of that.
“I’d like to see them praising the work of Labour MPs and saying, ‘Don’t you dare have a go at these people, they’re doing a perfectly good job'”.
Mr Williamson – who lost his seat by 41 votes in 2015 – said: “I think people are fans of Jeremy Corbyn, but the reason people are fans of Jeremy Corbyn is because of his policy agenda”.
“Their intention is now absolutely explicit and the evidence of the change they want to put in place is right before our eyes”. “I hope that when we get to the autumn and we have selected our leader that we will all unite again and support the new leader whoever that is, whether it is Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn”.
“There is a panic room being fitted in my office, I now walk around with an alarm system that means people can listen to conversations”, she said.
However, Luke Sibieta, director of education and skills at the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said abolishing university tuition fees in England would come “with quite a price tag”.
She told BBC Radio 4’s World At One: ‘Last week, somebody thought it was amusing to mock up a picture of a woman with a spear through her heart and put my face on it.
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Mr Corbyn has acknowledged that the scheme would be expensive to implement, but insists that it can be funded through corporate taxation and by tackling tax avoidance and evasion.
