A statement released by the constituency party says: “This constituency expresses deep concern over the apparent disregard shown by some members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), towards democracy in our party”.
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“I’m in this contest to win it and that’s what I intend to do”.
‘I want new hospitals, I want better roads, I want us to restore Sure Start centres, I want us to make sure we’ve got the rail infrastructure we need, I want us to be certain that every child has a chance to go to college or take an apprenticeship.’
The Labour leader, who will automatically be on the leadership ballot, has told the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme he believes the £25 fee for registered supporters to vote in the contest is too high.
Leadership rival Ms Eagle also slammed the current leadership and said that Labour was “as divided and disunited” as she can remember. For example Labour MP Ruth Smeeth, who recently declared that Corbyn had made the Labour Party “unsafe for Jews”, was exposed by WikiLeaks as a “strictly protect” United States informant.
“That just hasn’t happened under Jeremy”.
Ms Eagle had called for action from the leadership on “abuse, misogyny, homophobia (and) anti-Semitism” affecting the party.
On Friday a man was arrested after allegedly making threats to kill her. “This is not an acceptable way to behave in our democracy”.
I did not vote for Jeremy Corbyn and I do not think he is the right person to persuade people to vote Labour at the next general election, but I agree totally with his values and what he stands for.
“I won’t be stopped or cowed”.
A source close to her said: “She’s not going to stand down”. It means workers and young people familiarising themselves with the revolutionary socialist and internationalist perspective, opposed throughout its history by Labour, and represented by the International Committee of the Fourth International, and dedicating themselves to the construction of a genuine party of the working class.
McCluskey said those seeking to oust Corbyn would be “branded forever with the mark of infamy for betraying their party and their country”. He added: “That is why I am standing for this leadership, to heal our party, to unite us”.
“We can not present ourselves as a government in waiting without leadership and a leadership team that commands the respect and support of not only members…but Labour voters and potential Labour voters”. “But it gets to a tipping point when it’s taking in the new left”. The daughter of a seamstress and a print-worker, she was the first from her family to go to university. There have been issues about how people can get in the room.
The vast majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is engaged in a battle to replace Mr Corbyn after most of his shadow cabinet resigned and 172 MPs backed a no confidence motion in the party leader following the European Union referendum.
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“He has tried to persuade Jeremy that he shouldn’t be continuing”, she said of the West Bromwich East MP. “We can trust them again in 18 months time to check it’s absolutely what they wanted”.
