The GMB has criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to generate 65 per cent of United Kingdom energy from renewable sources by 2030, telling the Labour leader “wishful thinking doesn’t generate the power we need to heat homes, keep the lights on and the economy functioning”.
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The result will be announced at a special conference for party members in Liverpool on September 24.
The socialist had been a Labour backbencher during most of his time in Parliament since he was elected in 1983.
Anyone who has received a security code for their Labour Party membership can vote in the Labour leadership election.
The Labour leader is favourite to win the leadership contest despite losing the support of the overwhelming majority of his MPs.
He will also head to the Miner’s Hall in Barnsley from 1pm on Saturday.
The Labour leader has no support from his MPs and his challenger has no support from the party, they were told.
He is still deemed to be the frontrunner among party members while his rival Mr Smith, a former shadow work and pensions spokesman, commands support among Labour MPs.
Mr Corbyn said: “I am delighted to receive the endorsement of UB40, one of the most successful British reggae acts of all time”.
Smith said a win for the current leader would not inevitably lead to a split but he would not serve in a Corbyn shadow cabinet because he did not feel he could do so with integrity.
More seriously, May was pushed by Scottish National Party MP Angus Robertson on whether she intends to keep the United Kingdom in the European single market as part of Brexit.
Appearing at a Labour leadership hustings in Birmingham alongside Owen Smith last month, Mr Corbyn was asked if he would respond militarily to a Russian invasion of a fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organisation country.
And Mr Smith referred to his own internal polling last week, claiming: “The phone banking we’ve been doing shows this is still balanced on a knife-edge”.
But May said of modern Labour: “The train has left the station, the seats are all empty, the leader is on the floor – even on rolling stock they’re a laughing stock”.
“I have to say the first one was quite good – in fact you might want to make sure you stay sitting down for this”.
“We will launch a publicly funded National Home Insulation programme that would see at least four million homes insulated”, Corbyn will say. “We’ve seen some of those flags and banners at some of Jeremy’s rallies and some of those people are bringing attitudes that I don’t think are welcome”.
A Labour Bristol city councillor has been suspended from her party after she publicly slated the organisation’s governing body.
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