Corbyn – who enjoyed strong support from the audience – told Smith: “Since the election last summer our party has grown enormously, 300,000 new members have joined because they want to see this country governed and run in a different way”. In contrast, over half (51 per cent) of those surveyed said JeremyCorbyn is not performing in his job as leader of the Labour Party.
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As reported by the Guardian, Watson sent the leader’s office a four-page document, based on publicly available information, detailing what he said was evidence that Trotskyists had been attending meetings of grassroots pro-Corbyn Momentum pressure group and seeking to influence the Labour leadership election.
As the leadership contest becomes increasingly acrimonious, former Labour leader Ed Miliband released a video explaining why he is backing Mr Smith.
“The decent, hard-working people we represent don’t want a party riven by in-fighting”.
30,000 are affiliated supporters of the Labour Party, and 20,190 participated in the leadership consultation. This leadership election shouldn’t be taking place.
“We need a Labour Party that gives them a voice – that halts and reverses the cuts, privatisation, and outsourcing that are ripping Britain’s communities and services apart. He’s trying to bring it together”.
Mr Tarry also questioned the way in which the vote was undertaken. Mr Corbyn has the backing of Unite.
“She needs to go into her constituency and follow the wishes of her constituents”.
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“I was certainly not invited to any meeting and I would have gone if I was invited”.
Mrs Lewell-Buck also responded to Mr Watson’s comments about her standing down from her Shadow Cabinet position.
Mr Smith replied: “I do, Jeremy, but I don’t want it to be fruitless, futile work”. It had no weight whatsoever in our party.
Mr Smith accused the leader of “undermining colleagues” and told him: “You can not lead us back to power”.
“I’ve got to look at myself in the mirror every day and I have to be true to what I believe in”.
“I was not pointing to something antisemitic having been said”.
CLP chairman Jane Cowling said: “Both Mr Williamson and Mr Coaker were excellent and provided a lot of food for thought”.
Responding to the criticism, the Manchester mayoral hopeful insisted he is in a “different position” to other MPs because he pledged to support Mr Corbyn after losing to him past year.
Rhea Wolfson, one of a slate of left-leaning new NEC members, appeared to threaten anti-Corbyn MPs with mandatory reselection to address the “important disconnect” between the parliamentary party and rank-and-file members.
“What I’ve seen is lots of enthusiastic people, not all of them young, joining the Labour Party”.
He said: “There has to be a national strategy for releasing land and I think there are several ways in which we could unlock the potential of really mass housing and cheap, affordable housing in this country”.
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He submitted:”We say there are obvious dangers in powers that allow for retrospective exclusion of existing members from the franchise”.
