Mr Corbyn and rival candidate Owen Smith learn on Saturday September 24 who has won Labour’s bad-tempered leadership contest.
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Voting ends today at 12pm, with the result set to be announced at a conference in Liverpool this Saturday.
“The people in office believe Jeremy Corbyn will not win a general election, and we are moving backwards”.
“The party has ended up pre-New Labour in policy and culture, when we need to be post-New Labour”.
“So I don’t think there’s more difference in policies”.
“He’s not giving ground on Watson’s idea of allowing MPs to elect the shadow cabinet”, said one senior party figure.
“Like a year ago, people have come together because they want to see Labour rebuild and transform Britain”.
“And I will work to create a strong leadership team for our party, inside and outside Parliament, based on respect for each other and for all those who rely on Labour to defend their interests”.
It read: “It is disappointing that while the Tory Prime Minister has promised worker representation on company boards that Labour Party workers are now unrepresented on their own executive”.
Despite the leader’s olive branch, shadow chancellor John McDonnell on Tuesday night declared the onus was on MPs to rally behind Corbyn’s “mandate”.
Mr Smith acknowledged the leadership contest had been “long and bruising” in the letter, but insisted “it had to happen” if Labour were to enter government again – even if many people did not want the challenge to take place.
The ruling national executive committee failed this week, after an eight-hour meeting, to decide on whether or not to reinstate shadow cabinet elections. “Yet frustration or anger is more appropriate, because the political situation of Labour is the product of a series of choices”, the former Foreign Secretary said.
Mr Corbyn told the BBC that “the party made a great deal of money from them”.
Ken Loach, the multi-award winning filmmaker, has made a film in support of Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to be Labour leader.
Relations between McNicol and McDonnell reached a new low after the Shadow Chancellor suggested “party staff” had tried to rig the leadership race by purging Corbyn supporters on spurious grounds.
Corbyn replied that he was opposed to compulsory redundancies.
The addition of the extra two NEC places was welcomed by “moderates” in the party last night, and Dugdale is nearly certain to take up the Scottish rep post herself. “The old Labour Party is dead”.
“The main charge against Jeremy Corbyn is not just that his strategy is undesirable because it makes the party unelectable – that is only half the story”.
After attending the NEC meeting in London, Dugdale said: “These will be the biggest changes we’ve seen to how the Scottish Labour Party is run in a generation”.
She said Mr Corbyn had only ever worked as a trade union organiser or an MP, and had no experience outside that.
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A Labour spokeswoman said the party would not comment on leaked documents.
