There are five days left to “save the Labour Party” from Jeremy Corbyn, the MP challenging him for the Labour leadership has said.
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Now a complaint by an unnamed MP to the party’s chief whip and general secretary said the hit list amounted to “harassment and bullying by the leader of the parliamentary party” and warned it was “not acceptable for Labour MPs to be deliberately victimised by the leader of our party in this way”.
Mr Smith’s outspoken attack on Mr Corbyn’s left-wing allies comes in his final speech of a bitter leadership campaign and follows his bruising clash with the Labour leader in the final TV debate.
“The documentary will allow Sky News viewers to really understand what issues the party is dealing with as political turmoil engulfs it”, said Esme Wren, Head of Politics at Sky News. The Tories now have a six point lead over labour, on 40 per cent, with Labour on 34 per cent. Ukip were on nine per cent, and the Liberal Democrats on six per cent.
“We’ve apologised – it was just inappropriate”, McDonnell said.
“One of our researchers saw a bit of incoming flack, and then did a list of all of the statements that had been made by other MPs, some of which were nor particularly kind, let’s put it that way”.
“It was a briefing note, and it shouldn’t have gone out, and we apologise for that”.
He said: “I do think the redrawing of boundaries does present an opportunity for the selection of some new candidates who may be more in tune with the views of ordinary party members”. This is defamation. I’ve been accused of abuse.
A Labour MP will be elected to chair the committee in a vote of all MPs. “We have always been a broad-based party, where people may have honest disagreements over policy but share the same commitments and values, and where we have always found common ground”, he said.
Opponents of the leader expect…
“I look forward to representing some parts of Islington”, he said on arrival at a dinner with unionists on Monday evening. If I receive a written apology from the leader and if this statement, this ridiculous, petty, student politics list is retracted, that would help.
Watson was highlighted for calling the grassroots Corbyn campaign Momentum a “rabble”.
Ian Austin, Ben Bradshaw, Frank Field, Anna Turley, Jamie Reed, Karl Turner, Stephen Kinnock and Tom Blenkinsop were all also named.
The list was released just hours before a Sky News debate between Corbyn and Smith.
“A “deselection list” circulated by Jeremy’s campaign, attacking Labour MPs”.
Mr Smith went on to say: “I don’t think you make any effort to unite the party and I worry that we will be more divided and even less able to do the things that I want and we want to do to make Britain more equal”. “As Jeremy has said, it is imperative that we now do all we can to unify our party”.
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Some of those organising Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to win the ongoing Labour leadership election were reportedly upset that the list had been given to journalists.
