Ruling out any kind of progressive alliance, he claimed the party was “underfunding” Scottish local authorities, and said Scotland’s £14.8 billion deficit in 2015/16 placed a huge question mark over the SNP’s independence mission.
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He said: “Labour’s goal has always been to shift the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people”.
The Labour leader is now battling to cling on to his job in the face of a leadership challenge from Pontypridd MP Owen Smith.
Mr McDonnell said: “Labour party members will not accept what appears to be a rigged purge of Jeremy Corbyn supporters”.
Ms Onwurah added: “I think there is a strong argument for having another vote”.
“I’m therefore disappointed that my friend Kezia Dugdale does not sign up to this programme at the moment”.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is “very concerned” that some people may have been “unfairly” barred from voting in the party’s leadership election.
“I’m disappointed that she’s not supporting my re-election as leader. That need for change isn’t going away – and neither am I”.
“I’ve been Labour all my life and I’ll be Labour till I die”.
But Smith accused Corbyn of not doing enough to shut down abuse.
Mr Corbyn’s team believes he continues to enjoy the support of the majority of Scottish Labour members and constituency branches.
“Let me make it clear. I hope Jeremy will support me in such a move”.
He said the public spat had helped to publicise Mr Corbyn’s plan to renationalise the railways, and attacked Mr Branson as a “tax exile” who was “laughing all the way to the bank”.
The two largest unions affiliated to Labour – Unite and Unison – have also given their backing to Mr Corbyn.
“If the Government manages to deliver a Brexit which meets the expectations that would be one thing but looking at the shambles that we have that seems increasingly unlikely and British people deserve a vote”. “Proud to be genuinely standing up for ordinary people”.
Several hundred supporters attended a rally ahead of the hustings which started with “Socialist songs” praising union membership and the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising James Connolly.
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Mr Corbyn also used the occasion to condemn leadership challenger Owen Smith for seeming to refer to him as a “lunatic”.
