In the speech, Mr Corbyn said the United Kingdom economy was “poised between two alternative futures” – one, offered by the Conservative government, “where the fast buck takes precedence”, the other a “new, dynamic economy that breaks with the failures and injustice of the past”.
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The list was mistakenly released to journalists by a member of Corbyn’s team without approval, triggering anger among MPs. Many opposition politicians fear that local party members will use the shake-up to try to deselect them if Mr Corbyn retains the leadership later this month.
Mr McDonnell said: “We’ll be meeting with all our MPs on numerous issues of concern, of course we will”.
Other leading MPs in the national Labour Party have made stronger comments.
“We’ve apologised – it was just inappropriate”, McDonnell said.
“It was a briefing note, and it shouldn’t have gone out, and we apologise for that”.
“It certainly wasn’t a list in any way to attack anyone, it was just a factual report”.
John McDonnell boasted to lefty allies last night: “Their meetings were being leaked to us, we had people in the meetings letting us know what was going on, that’s why they’re useless”.
He said: “I think the process is really about fixing the system to the advantage of the Tory party”. This is defamation. I’ve been accused of abuse.
A Labour MP will be elected to chair the committee in a vote of all MPs.
“And as a practical start to this I am growing an olive branch, an olive tree in fact, on the balcony of my office”.
The challenger will begin his final push for the leadership with a raft of criticisms of Momentum as a “party within a party” as he tells voters there are only five days remaining to “save” Labour. If I receive a written apology from the leader and if this statement, this ridiculous, petty, student politics list is retracted, that would help.
The film director also attacked Labour HQ for the manner in which it was preventing people it felt did not share the party’s values from voting in the Labour leadership contest.
Watson was highlighted for calling the grassroots Corbyn campaign Momentum a “rabble”.
Appearing on the list were: Tom Watson, John Woodcock, Jess Phillips, Tristram Hunt, Ian Austin, Neil Coyle, Ben Bradshaw, Frank Field, Anna Turley, Jamie Reed, Karl Turner, Stephen Kinnock and Tom Blenkinsop.
An SNP spokesperson said: “Scotland faces a deep and growing democratic deficit at Westminster, with unwanted Tory policies being imposed on Scotland”.
JERMY CORBYN will pledge to create an economy for all but rival Owen Smith will claim the Labour leader would put more than 500,000 jobs “at risk” as they step up campaigning.
Mr Smith went on to say: “I don’t think you make any effort to unite the party and I worry that we will be more divided and even less able to do the things that I want and we want to do to make Britain more equal”.
“That isn’t unifying”, he said.
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A complaint by an unnamed MP to the party’s chief whip and general secretary said the action amounted to “harassment and bullying by the leader of the parliamentary party” and warned it was “not acceptable for Labour MPs to be deliberately victimised by the leader of our party in this way”.
