JEREMY Corbyn’s team has issued a roll call of Labour MPs it claims have abused the leader which includes two parliamentarians from the region.
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The Green Party could be the biggest losers if Easton ward shifts to a new constituency under changes proposed by the Boundary Commission.
Mr Blenkinsop could not be contacted for comment.
Mr Corbyn would potentially be pitted against two of his closest allies, Mrs Thornberry and Ms Abbott, for selection as candidates for the new seats of Islington and Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington. They said there was “every reason to believe Jeremy will still have a seat to contest” as 60 per cent of the new Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington constituency is made up of areas now in Islington North.
Patrick McLoughlin, the Chairman of the Conservative Party, welcomed the proposals and said in a statement that the party planned to work with its lawmakers to “minimize the disruption that boundary restructuring can sometimes cause in the short term”.
These include his shadow health secretary Diane Abbott, with whom he had a relationship in the 1980s, and who now holds the seat of Hackney Central.
There are leading Conservatives among MPs looking for new seats in the reduced total, including Mr Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, who would have to contest a newly created constituency in west London.
“It is certainly not an honest Momentum to preach the message of unity while planning to deselect 170 Labour MPs who dared to disagree with their assessment of Labour’s chances of winning”.
But the party has said it will adopting a “no colleague left behind” to minimise disruption to sitting MPs.
“These changes are not about fairness to voters, they are about what is best for the Tory Party and they must not go ahead”. He did, however, appear to say that those named had made negative statements about the Labour leader.
Secretary for the Boundary Commission in England Sam Hartley said that the review was an attempt to standardize the number of voters in each constituency.
“Desperate, trial by troll, victim-culture claims from an anonymous source backing Corbyn this eve”.
The initial proposals for England and Wales will be the subject of public consultation before the final map is submitted in 2018 to be used in the next election in 2020.
The current Labour leader and his leadership rival Owen Smith clashed earlier during the TV debate broadcast live on Sky News over what was needed to get the Labour Party back into power.
Mr Smith said he was a pro-European collaborator, saying this was in contrast to Mr Corbyn, who had historically opposed the European Union and was “sanguine” about Britain quitting the bloc.
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Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg denounced the proposals for boundary changes as “ludicrously lop-sided and gratuitously partisan”.
