As expected, the Islington North MP defeated challenger Owen Smith by a comfortable margin, receiving around 61.8% of the vote.
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Smith won just 38.2% of the vote.
Speaking at the party conference in Liverpool, Mr Corbyn said: “I will do everything I can to repay this trust and support, and bring our party together for the people who depend on the Labour Party”.
“But we have much more in common than that that divides us. We should defend our values together”.
“I hope that now the Parliamentary Labour Party will settle down and unite behind the leader”, she said.
That’s what motived us to set up The World Transformed – our supposedly “rival” event to this weekend’s Labour Party conference.
When it first became clear that a leadership challenge would take place, Mr Corbyn’s critics weren’t all confident of victory.
The presence of The World Transformed is a direct response to the considerable appetite among many party members and supporters for doing politics differently – even if many senior party figures are yet to accept this.
“But no matter where it is from, abuse and intimidation entrench prejudice, silence debate and poison democracy”. They have spent generation after generation languishing on the backbenches – carrying the torch for an ideological socialism that Labour has pledged itself to but never actually delivered in government.
What they’ll get is “the same Jeremy Corbyn who’s been through the last year, indeed the last 30 years in Parliament”, he said in a BBC interview on Wednesday.
Owen Smith won 116,960 member, 36,599 registered supporter, and 39,670 affiliated supporter votes.
At the same time he said the attacks on MPs and threats of de-selection by Mr Corbyn’s hardline supporters in Momentum needed to stop, while the leader had to show that he was making real progress with the public.
Others, including Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna are believed likely to focus on their bids to secure the chairs of influential parliamentary committees, which would allow them to take prominent roles scrutinising the Conservative Government from outside Mr Corbyn’s camp.
Ian Murray, the former shadow Scottish secretary and Labour’s only MP in Scotland, has said that he could return to the frontbench – if elections were reinstated.
Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn before the announcement of the victor in the Labour leadership contest between the pair at the ACC Liverpool. He called Smith “part of the same Labour family” and said he has no doubt Labour can defeat May’s Tories in the next general election.
Last year Corbyn, a long-time back-bench lawmaker, was the shock choice of party members to head Labour, which has lost two successive general elections to the Conservatives.
She said Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell should “insist on higher standards and proper enforcement”.
“Theresa May’s Government isn’t a new government – it’s David Cameron’s government with a new hard-right edge, repackaged with progressive slogans but threatening to take the country backwards and dithering as we face the historic challenges of Brexit”.
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Responding to the leadership result, Mr Rennie said: ” The Labour Party has made a decision to abandon moderate, progressive voters in the UK.
