HAPLESS Jeremy Corbyn’s ex-wife has revealed she is voting for his rival Owen Smith in the Labour leadership contest.
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“Anything else would be destructive and self-indulgent”.
They say Corbyn is too left wing for voters who returned the Conservatives to power just past year, which means the ruling party will have a free rein to pursue austerity policies and plot a divorce from the European Union they fear will push Britain to the right.
“In the next few days, I will be holding discussions with MPs and others about the best way to cement a new working relationship with the Parliamentary Labour Party, as we democratise our party and its structures”.
But Ms Chapman, who is now a professor of communications at the University of Lincoln, said she had been “saddened and upset” by recent events in the Labour Party.
On Tuesday night Smith wrote an open letter to Labour party members and supporters about the contest, which he admitted many had not wanted.
But Mr Miliband’s comments illustrate the difficulty the party will face in healing its divisions.
Looking to the future, he said: “I will build on the broad policy agreement that stretches across our party, based on a clear anti-austerity agenda”.
Jeremy Corbyn was today urged by a veteran Left-winger to make peace with Labour MPs by letting them vote on who serves in his shadow cabinet.
Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign team released a video on the Labour leader’s Facebook page yesterday, created to address perceived misconceptions that surround him and his supporters.
“The stakes are really high at the moment, and I think the role of the PLP is going to be crucial as we know because there’s going to be a lot of work with legislation as we withdraw and it’s really important that the Labour party puts up a strong case in parliament”.
Corbyn was elected past year and has strong support from the party grassroots. Jeremy Corbyn would like that to change.
Thanking his supporters for their efforts, which he said included 38 rallies around the country since the end of July, he said they had been “reaching out, involving people in politics that matters”.
Labour’s sole Scottish MP has said he will only return to Corbyn’s frontbench team if the leader reinstates shadow cabinet elections.
Around 640,000 people are eligible to vote in the election, an increase of more than 80,000 on last year’s race.
Personal attacks, allegations of anti-Semitism and abuse have become more commonplace than policy debates within Labour since Corbyn beat three more centrist candidates to the leadership previous year.
Corbyn is widely expected to win a renewed mandate when the results of the leadership challenge are announced in Liverpool on Saturday.
“But he does want to appoint people and get then back to work and is trying to strongarm and persuade MPs back with a series of bi-lateral meetings”.
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“This film is worth watching because it accurately shows the attitude of most Corbyn supporters to communal concerns about anti-Semitism”, said Mark Gardner, who heads the Community Security Trust which organizes security for the UK’s Jewish community, according to the Jewish News.
