Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith says that he would commit £50million of investment in the North East if he was elected as prime minister.
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“We’ve had mass rallies, we’ve had a big party and we’ve lost successive elections”, he said.
“I was loyal to Jeremy, but I don’t think that he can lead us to victory”.
The former work and pensions spokesman said he left because the current leader “cannot lead us back to power”.
Mr Smith replied: “I do, Jeremy, but I don’t want it to be fruitless, futile work.
Jeremy did 122 campaigning events to stay in the European Union, considerably fewer than he will do for the leadership campaign and far more than Owen Smith did”.
Mr Coleman urged attendees at the meeting to watch the fly-on-the-wall Vice News documentary, Corbyn The Outsider, in order to understand the chaos in Mr Corbyn’s camp.
Corbyn’s rival, Owen Smith, has also committed to a national investment bank. I will serve Labour on the backbenches, because I’m Labour to my bones.
“We also have to recognise the need for an environmental approach which is also about sustaining our biodiversity and ecosystem”, Mr Corbyn said.
Mr Smith said his first act as leader would be to create a full shadow cabinet – something Mr Corbyn has struggled to do following a wave of resignations.
“Owen, our party is a strong party, our party is a big party, our campaigning abilities are vast if we work together on those campaigns”, said the Labour leader.
He is facing a challenge from legislator Owen Smith in an election that will be decided by party members and supporters next month.
“We know how this one ends, Jeremy, and it doesn’t end well for the working people of Britain”.
He submitted:”We say there are obvious dangers in powers that allow for retrospective exclusion of existing members from the franchise”.
“It’s not about the t-shirts we wear and the badges on our lapels”. Mr Smith told Mr Corbyn: “I have lost confidence in you”.
“Saying trigger article 50 is like giving David Davis and Liam Fox a blank cheque”.
Councillor Gareth Eales (Lab – Dallington/Spencer) said: “This result is an emphatic mandate for Jeremy Corbyn and a demonstration of where the party membership is locally”.
But Mr Smith said he believed Labour had “not fought anywhere near hard enough” to speak up for Europe and that the leadership shown by Mr Corbyn “was not sufficient”.
Mr Corbyn said he felt shocked and saddened after the referendum, but added it had to be accepted that the country had voted out.
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Corbyn’s refusal to step down prompted the leadership contest, which he on Thursday suggested was to blame for Labour’s dire performance in polls by YouGov.
