Jeremy Corbyn is to promise a digital revolution to improve broadband and other internet services for the public – as well as reboot Labour’s campaigning for the next general election.
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Members started voting on Monday, August 22, with the result expected on September 24.
This is while several of the former members of his shadow cabinet, including Lilian Greenwood, Chi Onwurah and Angela Eagle, have criticized him for not being cooperative.
Walthamstow Constituency Labour Party will host the MP at its rally in support of party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Speaking in Shoreditch, Mr Corbyn also argued his leadership campaign’s use of new technology would be a model for a future general election campaign and represented the party’s “path to victory” in 2020. Alongside emphasising the need for control by the membership of the Labour Party, in recent proposals Corbyn emphasised the need to democratise the legislature; replacing the House of Lords with an elected second chamber and offering greater power to local communities.
Ahead of May’s Holyrood election, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said she never wanted to take part in another referendum and ruled out giving her backing to one over the five-year term of parliament.
With longstanding supporters Corbyn does not have the same level of support, but the huge number of new members easily cancels out this discrepancy.
And she said that in the wake of the historic Brexit vote it is more important than ever for the party to unite and present a viable opposition.
The “Traingate” controversy where Corbyn said he was forced to sit of the floor of a Virgin train because it was “ram-packed”, which was later disproved, has had little impact on the Labour leader with only 5% of respondents saying that it changed their view of him.
And she warned the growing divide between the party hierarchy and its members could see the Labour Party repeat mistakes made under Tony Blair when the rank and file members were left “alienated, demoralised and ignored”.
Mr Corbyn’s digital drive comes after the House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Skills found that London ranked 26th out of 33 European capital cities for broadband speed, while the United Kingdom came ninth out of 28 EU countries.
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Mr McDonnell said the decision to suspend bakers’ union chief Ronnie Draper was “shocking” and accused party officials of “double standards”. “The conduct of this election must be fair and even-handed”.
