Writing on the Grassroots Labour blog, NEC member Peter Willsman said: ” The small number of “comrades” who are briefing the media against Jeremy are not only disloyal to our elected leader but are harming our party.
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Mr Miliband told BBC Radio 4’s Today that Mr Corbyn had a large mandate which he was entitled to interpret in his own way and he would not provide a “running commentary” on his leadership.
“It is for the shadow cabinet to make a final collective decision on the issue”, he said.
Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband has backed Jeremy Corbyn insisting that he is fit to be prime minister.
Given that Maria Eagle had to discover via Twitter last week that Ken Livingstone had been appointed as her co-chair on Labour’s defence review after no-one informed the shadow defence secretary directly, Mr S suspects Milne would be wise to focus on speaking to members of his own party – as opposed to political opponents.
He also congratulated John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, for recruiting serious worldwide economists to advise him on the future of the British economy. “As a constituency MP – and I think this is quite important – I am seeking to work out how do we use these new members so that we can do what we didn’t do fully under me, which is become a community organisation that actually is a presence in communities up and down this country”. His sudden departure, it is argued, left the party rudderless and vulnerable to an untested electoral system that allowed tens of thousands of people outside the party to vote for Corbyn.
With Galloway’s demand that his expulsion from Labour is rescinded so far unanswered, it may come as a concern to many MPs that the Respect politician is in such close contact with Corbyn’s spin doctor.
Momentum posted a Tweet telling its followers to lobby MPs “to support Corbyn, not Cameron, over Syria”.
The Labour frontbencher even raised the possibility of lifelong anti-war campaigner Mr Corbyn supporting airstrikes himself, following a United Nations resolution to take action against the extremists.
“We will make a decision about the whipping arrangements and whether there is a whip after we have made the decision about our policy”.
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She said: “My understanding is he is not a pacifist and that means that it is conceivable”.
