Mr McDonnell, who is running Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to retain Labour’s top job, accused Mr Smith of “flip-flopping” in the wake of reports some MPs meant to trigger a “semi-split” in the party.
Advertisement
The party of Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith has brought new meaning to the term Labour pains as it struggles to find a leader.
The result will be announced at a special conference in Liverpool on September 24. They are the kind of promises which would have Corbyn’s supporters applauding.
“Our parliamentary democracy needs a leader who can unite the Labour movement in and outside parliament and I believe [Pontypridd MP] Owen Smith is best placed to do that job”.
“We are getting into some fairly freakish territory here where unnamed MPs, funded from unnamed sources, are apparently trying to challenge – via the Daily Telegraph, very interesting – the very existence of this party”.
Jeremy Corbyn has rejected the idea that he exists in a “remote bubble of adulation”, after outlining his industrial policies in front of a noisily supportive trade union crowd that had just endorsed him to remain as Labour leader.
Mr Smith told the BBC: “I do worry about there being a split”.
“This leadership election should be about the candidates debating their visions for the future of Labour and the country”.
Mr Foster, who has said he will not appeal the decision, has been ordered to pay the party’s and Mr Corbyn’s legal costs.
“Jeremy won 60% of the vote to become leader of the party, and he’ll win an even greater percentage this time round”. Eagle told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that Corbyn had created a permissive environment where abuse is tolerated.
Ms Green hit back at the shadow chancellor’s claims, saying: “The irony of John McDonnell offering hollow words on party unity will not be lost on Labour members and supporters”.
Corbyn has tapped into an appetite for change, winning support among disillusioned young voters and socialists who had drifted away from the party during two decades battling for the political centre ground.
“It is politics that deals in policy and the agenda of working class people and those in trade unions”.
He said: “We only have to stay out of power as long as we were out of power between ’79 and ’97 for me to be approaching 80 by the time there will be another Labour government”. “This simply can’t be achieved without fairness in the workplace and to make this a reality we need nothing short of a revolution in workers’ rights”.
Advertisement
An ICM poll last month gave Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives a 16-point lead over Labour, who on 27 percent support were at their lowest in that series since 2009.
