A shadow minister who quit her post in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership a month ago has unresigned.
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Mr Corbyn is facing a leadership challenge from former work and pensions spokesman Owen Smith, having suffered a mass walkout from the shadow cabinet and lost a vote of confidence among his MPs by a massive margin.
The shadow cabinet member’s comments came after Mr Corbyn released an advertisement urging members to back him for the leadership which trumpeted the victories.
The Liverpool-born boss of the union Unite claims agents of the security services may be responsible for the bullying and abuse of critics of Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to stir up trouble for the Labour leader. I find this distressing…
Labour also saw more than 183,000 people pay £25 to apply to join the party as registered supporters to vote in the upcoming leadership election.
His comments follow an extraordinary claim from Mr McGinn, who said Mr Corbyn considered calling his father – a Sinn Fein councillor – in an effort to “bully” him following critical comments the MP made in a magazine interview.
The poll of 350 councillors in the 250 most marginal seats found 60.3% plan to back Mr Smith, compared to just 28.3% who intend to support Mr Corbyn.
However The Mail on Sunday said the factory concerned was owned by the same firm which was revealed by the newspaper to have paid factory workers in Nicaragua and Haiti as little as 49p an hour to make the official Team Corbyn T-shirts for his first Labour leadership bid.
It comes as Labour general secretary Iain McNicol has sought to clamp down on abusive behaviour by party backers in the run up to the leadership election.
The MP for Feltham and Heston described several incidents when people from the leader’s office used digital keys to open the office door.
She said at the time: “I have just stepped down from my shadow minister job, but not my responsibilities to my constituents, party or victims of abuse”.
Ms Eagle told the Daily Telegraph: “I think he has contributed to this”. She said: “It’s all very well to condemn it but there’s a permissive environment”.
“He has been stirring, he needs to be held to account”. “A few people say things they shouldn’t and then it’s blown up out of all proportion, to suit the imagery that the Labour party has somehow become a cesspit, and suddenly it’s a crisis”, he added.
“That tells me something”.
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In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ran a secret program called COINTELPRO from 1956 to 1971 which infiltrated groups such as the Black Panther Party and peace activists such as Martin Luther King Jr.
