But the reality is that it was only ever the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), and not the majority of party members and supporters, who wanted Corbyn to step down as leader.
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The Article 50 process provides that if no agreement is reached within the two year timetable and no unanimous agreement is reached to extend the negotiation period, Britain would be released from the European Union as a third country (see our previous post “Article 50: Interpretations and Applications” available here).
The Labour leadership election will be on September 21 and only people who have been party members since on or before January 12 are being allowed to vote.
He added that “Labour Party members will not accept what appears to be a rigged purge of Jeremy Corbyn supporters”.
Around 23,000 Labour members in Scotland will have a vote in the contest as well as registered supporters and those who qualify to vote through their trade union.
“The truth is of course that Jeremy is quite content now for us to sit back and for that hard Brexit that Liam Fox and David Davis and Theresa May are going to produce to take place”.
“People in Scotland can not look to Labour in Westminster right now and anticipate us winning a general election, therefore we are ill serving the Scottish Labour Party and we are ill serving the people of Scotland”.
Smith responded to Humphrys that he is calling for “a bit more democracy not a bit less”, but that argument would have to be very carefully pitched to avoid the perception that Labour’s Westminster elite is simply telling the public that it knows best.
However, CCTV footage later showed him walking past what appears to be rows of free seats.
The Labour leader was on the campaign trail in Glasgow yesterday, where he officially ruled out any formal alliance with the SNP because the nationalists “come from different traditions”.
The British media though refused to let go of a story that has earned the nickname, “traingate”. He hadn’t managed to find a seat in the whole of the train. He commented that the train was crammed full of passengers and he was unable to find empty seats for him and his wife.
Corbyn has announced the re-nationalization of railways in Britain if he becomes prime minister.
VOTERS are backing Richard Branson’s version of events in the #traingate row over Jeremy Corbyn’s by a margin of three to one.
In his speech outlining plans to “renationalise” the NHS, Mr Corbyn insisted f ree healthcare is a “right not a luxury”.
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Britain’s watchdog on data protection, the Information Commissioner’s Office, said Wednesday it is “making inquiries into the publication of CCTV images of Corbyn on the train”.
