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Corbyn has denied he was ready to call Conor McGinn MP’s father, a one-time Sinn Fein councilor, and ask him to reprimand his son over critical comments he had made about the Islington MP.
Corbyn is contesting the election against Owen Smith and the result is scheduled to be announced during the party’s annual conference on September 24.
She said that the Labour leader had “addressed” a meeting of activists in her constituency via speaker phone despite the allegations of intimidation. I’ve seen them come and I’ve seen them go.
But he threatened all his MPs would face an “open selection process” in every constituency “throughout the whole UK” when the boundaries are redrawn in 2018.
It is believed the move follows reports of alleged unrest among members and moves to deselect Wallasey MP Angela Eagle after she launched a bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.
He risked enraging rebels as he warned MPs may face reselection ahead of the next election due to an upcoming boundary review.
As for his former frontbencher Smith, Corbyn guaranteed he’d be welcome back to the shadow cabinet “because that has got to be the right way of doing things”. We have contacted the police and they have said we should cancel surgeries for safety reasons.
Efforts to keep him off the leadership ballot paper by forcing him to secure a minimum 51 nominations from Labour MPs and members of the European Parliament – a 20 percent support prerequisite for his challengers – failed last week.
He said: ‘I think it says that as a young man working on a radio programme, the Today programme where there was a bit of a culture of bullying, I made a very silly decision.
Theresa May has mocked Jeremy Corbyn as an “unscrupulous boss” who exploited Labour Party rules to further his own career as the two clashed for the first time at Prime Minister’s Questions. He said: “I am afraid I could no longer tolerate the hypocrisy of him talking about a kinder, gentler politics when I knew for a fact that he had proposed using my family against me in an attempt to bully me into submission because he didn’t like something I said”.
Reynolds said he would support Owen Smith, Corbyn’s rival, as the Labour leader launched his campaign to be re-elected with a plea for MPs to “get behind the party”.
Given that the current leadership challenge was triggered by a backlash against Corbyn – the one-time eurosceptic – over his lack of leadership in the referendum campaign, Mr S suspects it will alarm many that Corbyn’s new poster girl campaigned for an outcome the majority of the membership were against.
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At the official start of the contest against Owen Smith, the embattled leftie will say he will tackle inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination.
