Alex Cunningham, the MP for Stockton North, was speaking after Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of the Labour Party with a bigger mandate than before, winning 62% of the vote.
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Jeremy Corbyn has urged Labour MPs to “turn passion into action, ideas into reality” hours ahead of the leadership announcement.
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Corbyn’s pro-EU supporters and colleagues accused him of failing to campaign as much as they would have liked.
He also called on Labour MPs to unite behind his leadership and help build support for “a genuine alternative” to the Conservative Government.
Barnsley East MP Michael Dugher, who was sacked by Mr Corbyn from his role as shadow culture secretary earlier this year, wrote on Twitter: “Everyone in Labour must now focus on the issues that matter to our communities & to the country”.
Corbyn now faces the task of reuniting the party.
The leader of the Labour opposition group on Lichfield District Council has said it is time for “a new start” following the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn.
“They have given me the second mandate in a year to lead our party”.
At one point, more than 40 women Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn demanding he do more to tackle the “disgusting and totally unacceptable” abuse by his supporters.
“Let’s wipe that slate clean today and get on with the work we need to do as a party”, he said.
Large numbers of the nearly 200,000 people who backed Smith were doing so in part not to make a positive statement for the candidate, but to cast their vote against the current leadership.
Others will see it as a death knell for Labour with two warring factions with seemingly irreconcilable differences.
It is understood that he has not ruled out a return to Mr Corbyn’s shadow team. “As I’ve said throughout this campaign, this isn’t, and has never been, about me; it’s about all of us”. “That is essential for a party that wants to change things for the better and isn’t prepared to accept things as they are”, he said.
“I am reaching out on all the policy areas we’ve put forward”. “All these divisions in the Labour Party have been played out on a local level, relatively out of the spotlight, and conferences are very much in the spotlight”.
There was also the infamous “Traingate” fiasco over Corbyn’s choice of seating on a train journey.
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The 67-year-old socialist and peace campaigner has shown little interest for Britain’s special relationship with the United States and is opposed to nuclear weapons, including the costly Trident nuclear missile system that is maintained by the US. “Those new members are now part of a nationwide movement who can now take our message into every community in the country to win support for the election of a Labour government”.
