Veteran pollster Peter Kellner of YouGov, which carried out the survey, declared: “I would personally be astonished if Mr Corbyn does not end up as Labour’s leader – but I have seldom released a poll with as much trepidation as I have done this time”. This election is being fought under rules that were agreed by the whole party a year ago.
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Bookmakers cut their odds that Jeremy Corbyn will win the United Kingdom opposition Labour Party’s leadership election after a YouGov Plc poll showed another surge in support for the anti-austerity candidate.
Aintree-born politician Andy Burnham has released a “family” video as part of his Labour party leadership campaign. ‘It will undermine our reputation as a sensible, pragmatic party if we permit ordinary people to elect a party leader who actually represents their interests’.
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Barry Sheerman claimed members of the Socialist Workers Party, the Green Party, and the Conservatives had registered to vote “for reasons I think are malign”.
Ms Cooper’s team has told Sky News the poll “doesn’t fit” with their figures and “significantly overestimates Jeremy’s first preference support but it is a serious issue for the party and the country”.
Their second preference votes are then redistributed among the remaining three hopefuls. They must be returned by 10 September.
Local Labour parties and MPs have also been asked to check the lists of people in their areas who have signed up for anyone suspicious.
Corbyn is said to have divorced his wife because she wanted their son to go to a grammar school, but Corbyn felt the local Islington comprehensive was more appropriate and more of a class statement.
Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Stephen Timms, who has backed Liz Kendall, did not specify whether he would serve in a shadow cabinet led by Corbyn.
Labour says the verification process is ongoing, and that ballot papers have not yet been sent out.
Labour insists that it has “robust” systems in place to prevent “fraudulent or malicious” applications, but would not comment on reports that in the past week alone nearly 1,000 people had been excluded.
Campbell also sought to remind Labour activists of occasions on which former leaders – Ed Miliband and Michael Foot – have convinced themselves that thousands of passionate supporters amount to the overall public support of the electorate.
It said one of its members, former councillor Chris Flood, had been wrongly named in a report in The Times as having signed up.
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Corbyn’s supporters accuse centrist Labour sympathisers of sneering, patronising or worse when they suggest that their candidate would lead the party to almost certain defeat at the next election, but that may be because they fear that we are right.
