Nationally, however, it is left-wing Islington MP Jeremy Corbyn who has taken a surprise lead in the polls and is the current favourite to land the top job.
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“We know it’s not good enough for Merseyside to be a Labour stronghold”.
Labour Party leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has urged the Prime Minister to enter new talks with the Northern Ireland parties over the welfare reform budget.
The review emerged as Mr Corbyn suggested former prime minister Tony Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the Iraq invasion, remarks which are likely to fuel tensions in the leadership contest.
Liz Kendall says that the focus should be on improving early years education.
“There are real worries about how people find affordable housing”.
He f irmly backed a third runway at Heathrow but hinted that the HS2 rail line could be a lower priority than measures to boost east-west links.
But she insisted that the veteran left-winger “doesn’t have a monopoly on hope”, and said his “solutions based on conventions of the past” will not help Labour “win the national conversation in the years ahead”.
Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans to rebuild the north as an industrial heartland. “It was weakened as an act of deliberate policy, and requires improvements in transport, educational access, and concentrated industrial funding to rebuild”. Labour ditched its core support – white working class – in favour of immigrants, who they supposed would not only vote Labour, but also make Britain “truly multicultural” – whatever that means.
“But we need to allow the process to develop properly”.
Mr Niven added: “I think he is trying to take the party into the future”.
“Our campaign is not getting involved. We will be absolutely delighted if he is thinking about doing that”. “We’re not interested”. MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, Yvette Cooper, is the Shadow Home Secretary and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
“In my view only Cooper can unite the party to win again”.
Richard Murphy, an economic adviser to Mr Corbyn’s campaign and of Tax Research UK, said Mr Leslie has “got this completely wrong” as he defended the plan for “people’s quantitative easing”.
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The letter, signed by six MPs, six senior councillors and one constituency party chairman, says: “In May, while seats up and down the country saw Tory majorities rise and Labour MPs fall to the SNP, Merseyside became one of the very last strongholds against David Cameron’s Conservatives”.
