According to the YouGov poll for The Times newspaper, 54 percent of respondents support Corbyn to stay on as leader, while 21 percent back Eagle, and 15 are in favor of Smith.
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“I am announcing tonight that I will be supporting Owen in that endeavour with all of my enthusiasm and might”.
Responding to a question from Sky News, he said: “I am normal”.
“Angela is a star in the Labour firmament and she will be at my right hand throughout this contest and if I am successful thereafter Angela will be alongside me as my right hand woman”.
“She is a great Labour woman and I absolutely can not do without her in what will be a very hard few months”.
Ms Phillips was speaking after it became clear Mr Corbyn would face a challenge for the Labour leadership from Owen Smith, the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.
Mr Smith, who is Mr Corbyn’s sole opposition after Ms Eagle’s decision to pull out of the race, said he had spoken with his leader and asked him to change tack, but he was “completely intransigent” and would not step aside.
“I will be setting out to unite Labour with a radical vision for the future of our party and Britain, backed up by a credible plan to deliver”, he said.
He was left as the “unity candidate” after Angela Eagle dropped out of the race. “We’re not actually talking about the politics, we’re talking about the personalities”. If MPs really want Corbyn gone they need a two-way battle, unifying under either Eagle or Smith and avoiding a popularity split.
The Labour leader’s lawyers argued that his interest was “pressing and obvious”, saying that his personal perspective distinguished him from the members represented by Mr McNicol.
Labour supporters wanting to take part in the vote have until 5pm on Wednesday to register if they are willing to pay £25.
Mr S suspects Corbyn should add “fairness in the workplace” to his growing list of topics to avoid in public.
You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. “It went over 90 minutes, I think, because that reflected her wanting to take contributions from around the table”, the spokeswoman said. There isn’t another politician in the Labour Party capable of doing that.
He added: “I will give my full support to whoever is elected if someone other than Jeremy is chosen by the members in September”. One union boss told me “it has to be Owen”.
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Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has insisted he is fully committed to a publicly owned NHS and claimed that his call for greater choice in the health service while a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry did not mean he advocated privatisation.
