More than 640,000 Labour members, registered supporters, and trade union affiliates will decide between Mr Corbyn and his challenger Owen Smith, with the victor to be announced before the party’s annual conference next month.
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Measures would include mandatory collective bargaining in firms with more than 250 employees, the election of staff representatives to executive remuneration committees, and the introduction of “sectoral union bargaining rights”.
London’s new mayor has urged fellow members of the opposition Labour Party to ditch their leader in hopes of choosing someone more likely to win a national election. Corbyn backed the campaign to remain in the European Union, but was criticized for lackluster campaigning.
The Scottish Labour leader’s announcement comes after a majority of constituency Labour parties backed Jeremy Corbyn in the contest for leader of UK Labour.
“I don’t think we will win an election with Jeremy”, he said.
“It is about breaking open this magical circle of Westminster, some of our great universities, Whitehall and the boardrooms who try to control thinking, control ideas and control the way policy is developed”.
Yesterday Labour moderates were infuriated by the Corbyn camp’s email telling Labour members that “they” (a wonderful pronoun that British people use to refer variously to someone in authority who is making things hard, the weatherman, and those in charge of roadworks) have “stopped me voting for Jeremy”.
“Labour under my leadership will listen to ideas from the bottom up – and take radical action to transform and rebuild our country so that no-one and no community is left behind”.
Jeremy Corbyn’s shambolic management has made it impossible for two of Labour’s few female, ethnic minority MPs to do their jobs, one of his frontbenchers has claimed.
He said “I think we actually need a complete overhaul of the entire system – whether it is abolishing the House of Lords and producing something which is more democratic and accountable, whether it’s actually at a local level in the community giving people a real say through their communities in terms of things like democratic participation in budgeting and online democracy, that can actually help oversee control of local services”.
Smith also told the rally there was “no god given right of the Labour Party to exist” and it risked being “lost for generations” if Corbyn remained in charge.
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It followed an interview in which he called for Mr Corbyn to “reach out beyond his comfort zone”.
