Corbyn, faces a challenge from former Work & Pensions Secrtary Owen Smith, as the party struggles to hold itself together.
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He nevertheless remains popular with numerous rank-and-file party members who ultimately elect the leader and is the favorite with bookmakers to win the leadership contest, the result of which will be announced on September 24.
Many of the MPs who have quit the Labour frontbench because they have no confidence in Mr Corbyn will not return if he defeats Mr Smith.
A spokesperson for the left-wing leader claimed to IBTimes UK that McGinn’s accusations were “untrue” after the St Helens North MP alleged Corbyn had planned to phone his father, a former Sinn Fein councillor, for criticising his leadership.
“It is the duty and the responsibility of every Labour MP to get behind the party at that point. for the different, fairer, kinder Britain we can build together”.
Mr S suspects Corbyn should add “fairness in the workplace” to his growing list of topics to avoid in public.
She said: “Both sides are doing it, but I think one side has been doing it more than the other”.
“So there will be a full and open selection process for every constituency Labour Party through the whole of the United Kingdom”.
“And I’m very surprised and actually very disappointed that they should say that because politics has to be about bringing people in and I think we have done that spectacularly well”.
And he said he would tackle the “five ills of 21st century Britain” – inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination.
Leadership challenger Owen Smith launched a scathing attack on Mr Corbyn, blasting him over the “awful treatment” of women in the Labour party.
“Over the coming weeks, I look forward to listening and speaking to as many members and supporters as possible, to set out my radical vision for Labour’s future”.
Labour received more than 180,000 applications to sign up as registered supporters, each paying £25 to get their vote – a total of more than £4.5 million for the party coffers.
“There is a huge amount of talent on the Labour benches”.
Mr Smith said: “It’s excellent news for our party that over 183,000 people have joined”.
“The injustices that scar society today are not those of 1945 – want, squalor, idleness, disease and ignorance – and they have changed since I first entered parliament in 1983”.
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“We need to have a strong and united Labour Party so that we can be a good opposition, take the fight to the Conservative government and heal our country”.
