Islington North MP Mr Corbyn has also pledged a string of new policies but the party is deeply divided, with talk of it splitting to create a new one or an alliance.
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The author of Jeremy Corbyn’s report into anti-semitism yesterday refused to deny that she has been offered a peerage by the Labour leader.
She said that the Labour leader had “addressed” a meeting of activists in her constituency via speaker phone despite the allegations of intimidation.
He said: “I say to Labour MPs quite simply this”.
He added: “Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me”.
Mr Smith has also accused Mr Corbyn of “sloganising” and of being good at identifying problems but not solutions. You can make any number of ritual condemnations as you like but you have got to be judged by your actions not just words.
Theresa May has mocked Jeremy Corbyn as an “unscrupulous boss” who exploited Labour Party rules to further his own career as the two clashed for the first time at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Labour received more than 180,000 applications to sign up as registered supporters, each paying £25 to get their vote. “We need to mediate, we need to work together, because what’s important to the general public is that there is an effective Labour Party, whether we are in government or we are in opposition”.
“It’s not much of an employer that says, you know, work for me and work harder or I’m going to sack you all – which is effectively what he’s doing today”, the MP for Pontypridd told the BBC. There has been intolerance in the Labour Party and abuse in the Labour Party that we have never seen before.
Leadership challenger Smith has claimed that the level of “abuse, misogyny and anti-Semitism” in the party has risen since Corbyn’s victory last September.
Shadow worldwide development secretary Kate Osamor, who introduced Mr Corbyn at his leadership campaign launch, said the situation in the Parliamentary Labour Party was not sustainable.
“I am very surprised and actually very disappointed they should say that”.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes Plc has Corbyn as the 1/5 favorite to win the leadership contest, meaning a successful five-pound bet would yield a one-pound profit, while Smith is on 7/2.
Jeremy Corbyn will launch his fight to hold on to the Labour leadership with a vow to tackle discrimination in the workplace by forcing firms to publish details of the pay and conditions of workers. “I hope anyone who describes themselves as a Christian within the party cannot engage in that [abusive language] and can always be people that are trying to bring people together, whether that is between political parties or certainly within political parties”. “The workplace fairer … reducing the discrimination that holds people back”.
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In his article, McGinn said he was on a parliamentary trip to Washington in May when he learned that Corbyn was annoyed about an interview he had given in which he discussed the party’s disconnect with working-class communities.
