Jeremy Corbyn said he would unite all parts of the Labour Party should he be re-elected as leader in a heated televised debate with contender Owen Smith.
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“When the election is over and if I am elected leader of the party, I hope the MPs will come together”.
But the Labour MP Clive Betts has tabled a motion for debate at the PLP meeting on Monday night proposing their return.
He said Labour was “more or less level pegging” with the Conservatives before the contest began, but Smith claimed that was not true and the Tories were ahead in the vast majority of polls.
The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has complained of a “rigged purge” of potential voters by Labour’s governing national executive committee, and Corbyn has said he would like to examine the cases of those denied a vote; while the shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, has accused senior figures of wanting to quash Corbyn’s mandate.
A dossier setting out why the party leader is the “disunity” candidate has been compiled by the former frontbencher’s campaign team. “I have spent my life opposing racism in any form, as have you”, Corbyn said, making clear he had never supported Hamas.
The Labour leader said he wanted to remain in the single market “if it’s possible and I think it probably is”. The result will be announced on 24 September.
Mr Corbyn praised the band for its support of human rights causes and said it had “inspired” generations.
His comments come after his aides suggested on Wednesday that he might rule out full membership of the single market unless the United Kingdom could negotiate exemptions from key European Union rules.
Asked if that means to ignore the Brexit vote, he replied: “Well, exactly”.
Mr Corbyn countered by saying house-building is now 45,000 a year lower.
She added: ‘What we do know is whoever wins the Labour party leadership, we are not going to let them anywhere near power again’.
Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith have been told that Labour’s bitter election contest has made them both look “unelectable” and they should step aside for another candidate, as the pair clashed in a series of tetchy exchanges.
He claimed that many hard-left activists who had been “alongside” Mr Corbyn had anti-Zionist views that he had not been “strong enough” in speaking out against and distancing himself from.
UB40, whose hits include “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”, is the biggest musical name so far to back Corbyn, who is expected to fend off a challenge to his leadership this month.
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Drummer Jimmy Brown said: ” I believe in Jeremy Corbyn because I believe he tells the truth, he tells it like it is regardless of the backlash.
