She said there should be no legal challenge to the NEC’s decision but warned that Labour risks electoral wipeout in the north at the hands of Ukip, similar to that it has suffered in Scotland if Mr Corbyn remains leader.
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But around half a million will be involved in the Labour leadership election and Labour sources claimed that 60,000 new members flooded to join the party after the vote of no confidence.
“It’s not unfeasible to suggest that an alternative Labour Party manifesto could be produced by the 81 per cent of Labour MPs who don’t support Jeremy Corbyn”.
But this time around, anyone who was not a fully registered party member by January will have to pay £25 for the right to vote. Mhairi added that this would “give Southport Labour the chance to robustly challenge the Lib Dem/Tory complacency in the town come the next local election”. “We will use the leadership election to sign up even more members and prepare ground for general election”.
Pontypridd MP Owen Smith branded himself as the “radical and credible” alternative to Jeremy Corbyn as he launched his bid for the Labour leadership.
On Tuesday, after a six-hour meeting during which the NEC heard three contradictory pieces of legal advice over Corbyn’s inclusion on the ballot, Labour’s governing body ruled in Corbyn’s favor.
And the increase was seen by some as an attempt to make it harder for supporters of Mr Corbyn to take part. “It was because they can not tolerate a socialist as the leader of the Labour party leading a socialist administration”.
Ms Eagle has struggled to overcome her voting record, including support for the Iraq war in 2003 and for bombing Syria previous year.
“I am sure Labour MPs will understand that the party has to come together in order to present to the British people the option of a different and better way of doing things”, he said. I am not prepared to let that happen.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has branded the Labour MPs trying to unseat Jeremy Corbyn “f***ing useless”.
In a swipe at his rival Ms Eagle, the former shadow work and pensions minister will say that only he can unite the fractured party.
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“Unfortunately the Labour Party is the butt of that joke and everyone has stopped laughing”.
