Back in June he was reported to have confronted his party leader at the Labour parliamentary party meeting where he told Corbyn he should step down.
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In a survey of more than 700 supporters of the Labour leader, 55 per cent said that it was either “definitely” or “probably” true that intelligence agencies are working to undermine Corbyn, who is likely to triumph in the party’s ongoing leadership contest.
“I think there have been many examples during this campaign, which I’ve sketched out serious which we could rebuild Britain – the £200 billion New Deal that I’ve talked about”. It featured public spending reductions, tax cuts for the wealthy, reduced workplace rights, increased selection in schools, charges for NHS services and the abandonment of Britain’s 0.7% overseas aid target. “And Jeremy has to be held accountable for that as the leader of the party”. “We can not mistake the mass rallies that Jeremy has gathered for the mass movement we need to gather of 12 or 13 million people voting Labour in order to stop this becoming reality”.
Mr Smith is expected to say: “As we move into the final weeks of this campaign, I wanted to spell out exactly the risks facing our country if Labour continues with Jeremy Corbyn as leader, failing in its duty to offer a powerful opposition to the Tories and not looking like a credible government in waiting. Britain would be unrecognisable at the end of that”, Smith said.
Mr Corbyn’s spokesman said: “Jeremy supports democratisation and reform of the party rules and structures”.
His warning comes just days after a YouGov poll put Mr Corbyn 24 points ahead of Mr Smith. And I’m not prepared to stand by and see another 18 years of the Tories, as we did in the 1980s.
“It will make the prospect of a Labour government in 2025 even more unlikely and unleashing a further wave of brutal right wing policies. That is what I am offering in this contest”.
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Mr Smith dismissed proposals for a basic income guarantee, which shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said he is ready to consider for the next Labour manifesto. I’ve looked at the arithmetic and I can not see that this works. And he described the gobstopper jibe as “a bit of a political banter”.
