“Jeremy Corbyn is proposing the sort of policies which I think Labour should be standing for”.
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“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?”
A triumph for Mr Corbyn would show that Labour had “given up on being a serious party of government”, Mr Campbell said.
The Labour leadership front runner recently won the backing of Labour AM’s Christine Chapman, Mick Antoniw and Mike Hedges, as well as more local constituency parties in Wales and the UK than the other three candidates.
Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair warned it would be impossible to win an election from a “traditional leftist platform”, while his ex-communications chief Alastair Campbell said a victory for Mr Corbyn would be a “car crash” and urged supporters to vote for “anyone but Corbyn“.
It comes as fellow candidate Andy Burnham also released an advert on YouTube to help garner more support before voter registration closes on Wednesday.
Left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn is now a strong favourite with the bookies, with odds as low as 5/4 with Ladbrokes.
“So we need to focus on the big challenges we have and look to the future with new ideas and fresh ideas and that’s what I have to offer”.
While none of the CLPs in North Staffordshire – a traditional Labour heartland – has lodged supporting nominations for Mr Corbyn, if social media is anything to go by he does have a lot of support in the area.
Meanwhile, several major Labour donors have reportedly pledged to stop giving money if Mr Corbyn wins the leadership contest on 12 September.
He said: “This has given me a small insight into the kind of difficulty so many women come across, when it is said that they are only where they are because they are sleeping with someone or someone fancies them”.
“I’m looking forward to meeting him and of course other members of the authority”.
Clause IV, which backed “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange” was removed from the constitution at a special Labour conference in Easter 1995 when the party was led by Blair.
These are people who are going to vote Red anyway, what the party needs to be doing is winning members of the electorate who chose Conservative, the Liberal Democrats or UKIP at the last election.
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Tonight, Rochdale’s Labour MP Simon Danczuk said: “Having seen the list in relation to Rochdale and hearing the horror stories from around the country in terms of entryism within the Labour party, I do think we’re moving to a position where the election probably isn’t tenable”.
