He saw off challenger Owen Smith with 61.8 per cent of more than half a million votes cast in the contest.
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While Corbyn has the support of most rank-and-file Labour members, he has struggled to retain support of his MPs. He insisted Labour could win the next election by positioning itself as the country’s “engine of progress”.
He said he now wants to concentrate on setting out policies on how Labour planned to achieve social justice.
It’s been a rough few months for the United Kingdom politically, and no party within Britain has felt the rumble of change more than the shadowing Labour Party – which has been through the mill over the summer as much of its membership declared a vote of no confidence in leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had only been elected to control the party during the summer of 2015.
Jeremy Corbyn’s tally was more than 60,000 higher than the 251,417, or 59.5 per cent, he secured in 2015.
There are many points in common between electing Corbyn and the dramatic work of Mullin, who was previously a member of the Labor Party and a current friend to Corbyn.
He said: “We agreed to put the rule changes on Scotland and Wales to the conference, so we can get a resolution on that, and thankfully Jeremy has started talking to colleagues to try and get an outcome for how we fill our front bench so very positive, a short meeting and everyone was left happy”.
Jeremy Corbyn surrounded by members of the media at an event to announce the results of the Labour leadership contest.
He was re-elected on September 23 with an even larger majority of nearly 62% to allow him to continue to lead the rapidly growing Opposition party, which now has more than 600,000 members.
But he faces an uphill battle to win over those who voted Labour at the last election but then supported Britain’s exit from the European Union, after a YouGov poll showed more than half of them have now abandoned Labour.
On the issue of shadow cabinet elections, Mr McDonnell told Sky News’s Murnaghan: “There’s a whole series of democratic reforms that people are debating now, one of which is shadow cabinet elections”.
After his victory, Mr Corbyn appealed to MPs to “come on board” in campaigning against the Government.
Several in the party who once supported his candidacy as a chance to harness a growing disaffection for “establishment politics” across Europe now rue the day they backed him. “If the Labour Party splits, it could be the end of the Labour Party”.
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He said: “I made a speech where I’ve quite clearly reached out to everybody”.
