“[It] benefits men who don’t feel the need to be at home looking after their children and it discriminates against women who will want to, obviously, look after the children that they have got”, Corbyn said.
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Add to that the 183,000 people who paid £25 this summer to become registered supporters in order to vote in the party’s leadership election, and that’s an impressive number.
Smeeth walked out of the London event to present the findings of the investigation after a Corbyn supporter accused her of colluding with the media.
The Facebook message in question called Ruth Smeeth, who represents the Stoke-on-Trent North district, a “Yid” and said “the gallows would be a fine and fitting place” for the 37-year-old House of Commons Labour legislator “to swing from”.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that its Counter-Terrorism Command was conducting an investigation into allegations of malicious communication and threats to kill made via social media.
Caroline Flint, the former shadow Cabinet minister, said the reform had been nicknamed the “McDonnell amendment” because it could help John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, to succeed Mr Corbyn one day, even though he lacks support from MPs.
“You would have to go back 25 years to the fight against the poll tax to recall a political meeting of this size and enthusiasm in Ellesmere Port”.
Ms Smeeth told the Sun she held Mr Corbyn “personally responsible” for the threats she had received.
“This is why Jeremy launched “Respect and Unity”, a code of conduct calling on all Labour members and supporters to conduct themselves with a high standard of behavior”.
“The NEC has always been clear that the party should act against this sort of abuse and that it has no place in the Labour Party”.
Backers of a campaign group to remove Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader are too scared to make their support publicly known, the group’s spokesman has claimed.
“This will not happen if leading Labour figures continue to irresponsibly undermine the disciplinary process that has, often belatedly, led to the suspension of bigots”. Some analysts have suggested Labour could lose 30 seats in the process.
Labour MP Ruth Smeeth storms out of anti-Semitism report launch Walkout.
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It urges Labour’s ruling body, the National Executive Committee, to bring forward a rule change at the party conference in September, to reinstate the elections system following the result of the leadership battle on 24 September.
