She said: “Labour voters were voting out of the European Union so they can take back control of their labour market, and our response was to call them stupid or to call them racist”.
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Her staff have claimed Ms Murphy would walk in without knocking and speak to them in a patronising manner, referring to them as girls and saying they shouldn’t be in there.
‘My staff, including an intern, who have always been courteous and open, have felt harassed, intimidated and insecure and decided themselves it would be best to not leave anyone alone in the office.
In a statement to The Observer, Ms Malhotra said she had lodged a complaint with Commons Speaker John Bercow and had asked for an investigation.
Polls show she is way ahead of Mr Corbyn in the polls, and she could be tempted to try to sidestep the new five-year fixed term Parliament Act and try to increase her fragile majority via a general election.
MPs’ offices can only be entered without their consent by police who obtain a search warrant.
As a result, Malhotra has written to the Speaker and accused staff working for Corbyn and McDonnell of “illegal” and “unauthorised entry” to her parliamentary office in Westminster. That’s just so distressing, it’s unacceptable.
Mr Smith has laid out his leadership stall with the promise of a £200bn investment in skills and employment and has also said he would have equal representation of men and women in his shadow cabinet.
‘We all know that change can take time but sometimes the delays cannot and will not be tolerated, ‘ he said.
“I want Owen (Smith) and Jeremy and everybody to say “let’s stop this now”.
John McDonnell has used a TV appearance to make a direct appeal for an end to the bitter infighting that threatens to split the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign group have cancelled orders of branded T-shirts after it was revealed they were made in sweatshops in Bangladesh.
In a stark warning to Labour, Mr Dugher added: “If that happens I fear we could see the Tories get a majority of 100 seats”.
Labour MP Graham Jones called the appearance a “train wreck”.
Corbyn has denied such a conversation ever took place, but Conor McGinn, the opposition whip, has insisted the leader of the party said he would call his Sinn Fein-supporting father over complaints about Labour’s direction. We thought she’d moved out, boxes were outside her office. She has been squatting in the office for a month now despite having a perfectly good one to move into’.
At a leadership rally in Salford, Mr Corbyn acknowledged that people were “angry” at the actions of MPs who had sought to oust him from the leadership, but said that they should settle their differences by “democratic” means.
Malhotra named Karie Murphy, Corbyn’s office manager, as one of the aides involved in the incident.
Michael Dugher MP, a former adviser to ex-Labour PM Gordon Brown, said: “I think she’ll be persuaded to seize the chance to go to the country sooner rather than later – maybe as early as October – if Jeremy Corbyn is still leader”.
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Former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Seema Malhotra.
