Corbyn has mass support among the party’s members, however, with polls showing he stands to defeat the PLP’s “unity” challenger for the leadership, Owen Smith, by more than 20 percentage points.
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The beleaguered leader welcomed the decision saying the case, brought by Labour donor Michael Foster, was a.
On Friday night over a thousand people of all ages gathered in York to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak at an outdoor rally ahead of the Labour Party leadership elections. “No more are we going to go down that road, no more is that going to be the politics of our party”.
The Pontypridd MP said he was standing to prevent such a split from occurring, as Labour needed to act as “really powerful opposition” to this “rotten government”.
“Are we to sit back and let the rich get richer?”
Taking questions following the speech to the Communication Workers Union (CWU), where he was announced as “the next Labour party leader and the next prime minister of this country”, Corbyn stressed the importance of interacting with people who did not automatically think like him.
Mr Smith, campaigning in the Corbybn stronghold of Liverpool, insisted he was fighting for the leadership in order to prevent a split as the party was now on the edge of a “precipice”.
Southampton Test Constituency Labour Party (CLP) voted for the current head of the party to remain in his seat after more than 170 of his MPs opposed him.
As the bitter tussle continued, shadow home secretary Andy Burnham claimed he would be leader of the Labour Party if leadership election rules had not been reformed by Ed Miliband.
In the Corbyn camp, 10 councillors have backed the sitting leader of the party.
Former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, David Blanchflower, and Simon Wren-Lewis, a professor at Oxford University, have expressed concern about Mr Corbyn’s leadership, The Guardian reported.
The issue is not the transformation of Labour into a “social movement”, but for the working class to adopt a genuinely socialist and internationalist programme, which the Socialist Equality Party alone fights for.
The Labour leader has generally called for the rich to pay more in taxes, and promised to increase public spending and infrastructure investment if elected.
“Many residents are making it clear that while they continue to support Reading’s Labour council they want to see strong leadership at national level”.
The contest over Mr Corbyn’s future is due to run until September 24.
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The speakers include Councillor Kevin Allen, who addressed a meeting of Momentum Brighton and Hove at the Friends’ Meeting House, in Brighton, on Thursday 21 July – a week after the local Labour party was suspended.
