But Mr Findlay said: “I have great admiration for Angela Raynor because she stepped up to the plate and served, unlike some others who deserted and I think it’s great credit to people like that”. “Not by me anyway”.
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The former work and pensions secretary also said it was “completely anomalous” and “not progressive” for capital gains tax to be set at 20% when the higher rate of income tax was 45%. “The reality is we don’t know what those terms are going to look like”. I also don’t want to try and hide the fact how hard it is going to be if Jeremy is re-elected.
Mr Smith said he was the candidate that could “unite” Labour during his leadership launch on Sunday. Hearing them, I was glad to be a member of this party.
They said that the leadership fight was no more than one against Blairite MPs who don’t represent the will of the party’s grassroots.
“There is one candidate now on the ballot with no nominations”, said Cooper, according to the Guardian.
A spokesman said: “The registered supporter web page on the Labour Party website is up and running”.
“I will take their legacy forward but communicate to people and give people faith we can do it”.
He continued: “That’s a model we should be thinking about right across our economy. We can trust them again in 18 months time to check it’s absolutely what they wanted”.
At a rescheduled speech in his Pontypridd constituency, Mr Smith will commit cash to housing, transport and “investing in people”.
Mr Smith repeatedly praised Mr Corbyn’s influence on the party but spoke of the need to create a “radical but credible” movement with policies to match the anti-austerity rhetoric.
Making her pitch to be the next Labour leader, Eagle said: “I’m from northern working class stock, my mum was a seamstress who didn’t get the chance to go to university, I did because of Labour governments”.
“I’ve wiped the floor with George Osborne at Prime Ministers Questions and I’m an experienced Government minister, as well as in opposition”.
Labour’s Owen Smith has branded himself the “normal” candidate for the party leadership because he has a “wife and three kids”.
“What’s been happening isn’t the kinder, gentler politics”. We need to overhaul our tax system.
Meanwhile, the party’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) is braced for a potential challenge over new rules for the leadership contest.
On a second Brexit referendum, he said he thought the British people had been lied to by those that campaigned to leave the EU.
But the decision to suspend constituency meetings means members of Swansea West Labour Party, who were due to meet tonight and hold a similar vote, will not now go-ahead.
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This is why a good number of MPs who have given Eagle their support have privately told me that they too will abandon their support for her if necessary in order to ensure that there is just one challenger to Corbyn.
