Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to eradicate all private providers from the NHS so the health service “returns fully to publicly ownership”.
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The Labour leader is speaking in Sunderland, a region that surprised many Remain campaigners by voting for Brexit.
He also said safe homes for children to grow up in, pre-school investment and a national investment bank with up to £500bn of funds was also at the top of his policy list.
Local MP Ruth Cadbury, who was not at the meeting, recently wrote to members saying she was backing Owen Smith for leader.
The duo also revealed their current iPod tunes, with Mr Corbyn saying he recently listened to Beethoven’s Symphony No 5, while his rival talked about indie band The Vaccines.
“We have to build and transform our society and give people the confidence things can be done differently in Britain.”
The two hour hustings event was moderated by Sky News’ Sophy Ridge and is one of series planned across the United Kingdom during the contest.
Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith accused Jeremy Corbyn of being “10 out of 10” for leaving the European Union despite his public campaign against Brexit.
“Mr Corbyn said he did not think it was likely Mr Smith would offer me anything”. “I will do what I have always done is vote Labour”.
Mr Coleman, who is working as an advisor to Mr Smith and previously helped deliver the Olympics for Boris Johnson, said Mr Corbyn’s challenger was better placed to deliver the economic policies proposed by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. He said he did not want the United Kingdom to be a “bargain basement” island with low taxes and low workers rights. But I would serve this party on the backbenches loyally.
The Labour leader said he wants to encourage innovation and referred to houses in his constituency that are heated by excess energy from the London underground.
The lights had returned by the time the pair were asked whether war could ever be justified.
But Mr Corbyn said: “It’s obviously a fuse”.
“You don’t need to be a mind reader”, Mr Smith told him. “So I’m very disappointed that you chose to resign when we were putting forward exactly that policy”.
The MP for Pontypridd told more than 50 members in the building’s council chamber that he fears for the future of Labour should Mr Corbyn stay on as leader and also slammed the Conservative Government for “leading the country out of the EU” and “jeopardising” investment in North East firms such as the Nissan auto plant in Sunderland.
It comes Britain’s biggest union, Unite, formally announced its support for Corbyn yesterday afternoon.
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COMMUNIST Party leader Robert Griffiths has slammed the “fertile imagination” of rightwingers who say far-left infiltrators are taking over the Labour Party.
