The party remains racked by tensions cause by the rebellion of shadow cabinet members who resigned in protest at Mr Corbyn’s leaderhip.
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The town is just a stone’s throw from Newport, where Mr Corbyn was brought up and schooled at Adams Grammar. Told Mr Corbyn voted against she added: “But that’s what he’s done all his life”.
The Labour party will reveal the number of MPs backing each candidate on Tuesday evening, along with their names, at which point either Smith or Eagle may be encouraged to drop out.
Mr Dromey said: “I was born on the left and I will die on the left”.
Today former shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Owen Smith will launch his own campaign to become Labour leader in his Pontypridd constituency.
Britain’s new finance minister, Philip Hammond, meanwhile, said the country did not need an emergency budget and he would instead monitor the economic situation over the summer before setting out spending targets as normal in the autumn.
“People are sending out a clear message they want to stick by party rules”.
One thing that the majority of the mainstream press are completely unwilling to mention is the fact that numerous death threats have been made against Jeremy Corbyn.
“The procedural rules of the leadership election state that no CLP meetings may be held during the contest”. There is also a pending challenge to the decision to block more than 130,000 people who have joined the party in recent months from voting in the ballot. I would probably expect it to go the same way.
Of course, there is no evidence to suggest that Corbyn’s supporters are less likely to pay the fee.
“That’s what I will be doing throughout this campaign; setting out the vision and policies that can unite the party and lead us into government”.
“I will be seeing what the membership decide, but I will not be nominating another candidate”.
“And we may have an early general election so let’s do the leadership election and let’s see what happens”.
A Labour donor from Cornwall is going to court to try to stop Jeremy Corbyn automatically being on the leadership ballot.
Corbyn won almost 60 percent of first round votes when elected previous year.
Labour’s national executive committee said the suspension followed “alleged abusive behaviour” at Saturday’s AGM. I didn’t get any instruction or leadership from Jeremy about that.
She said there should be no legal challenge to the NEC’s decision but warned that Labour risks electoral wipeout in the north at the hands of Ukip, similar to that it has suffered in Scotland if Mr Corbyn remains leader. The race will formally get under way today, with the announcement of the timetable for an election.
Mr Corbyn has called on supporters not to abuse his rivals during the leadership contest amid growing tensions within the Labour movement.
Owen Smith has cancelled the planned launch of his Labour leadership campaign in the wake of the latest terror attack in France.
Smith said he had chose to stand after seeing a “dramatic collapse of faith and confidence in Jeremy” over the last couple of weeks.
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“But the party is better and stronger when its larger”.
