Mr Corbyn finalised the details of his front bench yesterday, adding new leftwingers including Clive Lewis, Rebecca Long Bailey and Richard Burgon to his team.
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A series of tweets from Councillor David Baines, of Windle ward, who supported Liz Kendall, appeared to questioned Mr Corbyn’s credibility, but when contacted by the Star this week, he vowed to “respect the decision”.
Jeremy Corbyn is England’s answer to the SNP, Britain’s youngest MP Mhairi Black has declared.
Half of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet have privately pledged support for airstrikes in Syria, reports say.
Some are less than happy with his own record of supporting Labour.
But Mr Khan said he would oppose a rise in corporation tax, pledging to be “the most business-friendly mayor of all time”.
The result has also sparked talk of a deep split within the Labour party that was thrown into turmoil by David Cameron’s shock May election win.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn said he is still “very committed” to the group but was unable to attend because of his “busy diary”.
The new leader’s comments come after shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said the party would not “walk away” from Europe and shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer threatened to resign if Labour adopted a policy of campaigning for Brexit.
Instead, he said he would attempt to persuade them of his views but indicated that he would accept the outcome of the policy-making process.
In August 2014, she was given the newly-created role of shadow minister for preventing violence against women and girls by the then Labour leader Ed Miliband.
“In stepping down as chair, I want to make absolutely clear my continuing solidarity with the coalition and its work against wars of intervention,” Corbyn said in a statement.
But he accepted he would have to “live with it” if his opposition to the cap was rejected by the party because “I am a democrat”.
In a question on Northern Ireland, DUP MP Nigel Dodds referred to controversial comments previously made by Mr Corbyn’s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, in which he called for IRA terrorists to be “honoured”.
“So far this week I just do not know where he’s going and what he stands for”.
The poll reveals Labour has only gained one per cent of the vote since left-winger Mr Corbyn won a week ago while the Tories have gained two per cent.
He said: “I’m not resigning”. The pair are nearly dead ringers for each other, so much so Frost tweeted: “I want to thank everyone who supported me and I’m thrilled at my election as deputy head of the Labour party”.
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“More importantly for the country, we are seeing a Conservative Party in government lurching to the right and now the Labour Party returning to extreme left politics”.
