“Far too many people in the Labour party are personally economically comfortable with a Tory government in power”, he added.
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“And I will work to create a strong leadership team for our party, inside and outside Parliament, based on respect for each other and for all those who rely on Labour to defend their interests”.
Coinciding with Mr Miliband’s onslaught on his foreign policy, Mr Corbyn has called for the appointment of a “minister for peace” and a “minister for disarmament”.
Mr Corbyn added his hopes the “neoliberal agenda” of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan was coming to an end and said: ‘This is historical justice time’.
But he insisted all MPs should now get behind the leader, whoever that is.
Jeremy Corbyn and his team are holding talks with rebel MPs to try to persuade them to return to the front bench ahead of his expected victory in the Labour leadership contest on Saturday.
“Stop obsessing about the party issues and devote your considerable talent and experience to the one thing that really matters – the fast-approaching catastrophe of Brexit”, pleaded commentator Polly Toynbee in The Guardian, a newspaper read by many Labour supporters.
Mr Mann predicted moderate Labour MPs will now not be able to rid themselves of Mr Corbyn until after the next general election.
“Anything else would be destructive self-indulgence”.
But Ms Chapman, who is now a professor of communications at the University of Lincoln, said she had been “saddened and upset” by recent events in the Labour Party.
The conflict threatens to overshadow the party’s annual conference in Liverpool, in northwest England, where the victor of the leadership contest between Corbyn and Welsh MP Owen Smith will be announced.
Mr Watson, 62, a former miner, who worked at Westoe pit for 23 years, said: “It’s great to have a leader of the Labour Party with integrity and the members’ interests at heart, something that has been sadly lacking for a long time”.
Murray, MP for Edinburgh South, told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland: “I think Jeremy has to make sure he does wipe the slate clean if that is his intention”.
“Why on earth would anyone support Owen Smith, other than he is not Jeremy Corbyn – and so it proved”.
“I think never again should we allow that to happen”. We’ve been the party that have been closest to their views.
Ms Smeeth, the MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, fled the launch of Labour’s anti-Semitism report earlier this year after one of Mr Corbyn’s supporters accused her of colluding with the right-wing press.
Allies of the former PM say he is taking a realistic approach despite being personally criticised by many Corbyn supporters and his shadow ministers. “Our job now is to unite as a party and hold the Tories to account”.
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He suggested it was a mistake for Mr Smith to campaign on Britain’s continued membership of the European Union, arguing it showed the party’s disconnect from the working class.
