He told the newspaper: “The overwhelming majority of new members joined the Labour Party because they want to build a fairer and more equal society”.
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Moving the UK’s railways into public ownership would release cash to improve services and lead to lower regulated fares by as much as 10%, according to research commissioned by the TUC and cited by Mr Corbyn’s leadership campaign.
More than 60 Labour MPs resigned from Labour front bench team to protest against Mr Corbyn’s leadership.
Some 58% of United Kingdom adults thought Mr Smith would make a better Labour leader than Mr Corbyn.
That said, there’s better polling news for Labour this week, as YouGov put them seven points behind the Conservatives.
“Those are not members of the Labour Party, those are members of a fan club”.
“It said there is very clear under-utilisation of private sector in the NHS and it set about putting in place a new work programme that would guarantee that more clinical services were being undertaken by private sector providers in the NHS”.
But he said that staff at Friday’s constituency Labour Party (CLP) meeting spotted the non-member attempting to enter the meeting, and ensured the individual was prevented from participating. That was when a group of Labour politicians formed the short-lived SDP, the Social Democratic Party.
HARDCORE Jeremy Corbyn supporters are turning the Labour Party into simply a fan club, Dame Margaret Beckett has warned.
A Jeremy for Labour spokesman said: “The strength of solidarity shown to the five claimants campaigning for the democratic rights of their fellow Labour party members has been truly remarkable”. Among people who voted Labour at last year’s general election, the rivals were neck and neck, at 51-49 to Mr Corbyn.
When a judge ruled on Monday that Labour’s NEC were wrong to bar members who joined the party after January 12 from voting in the leadership election, Smith’s odds immediately drifted to [10.0]. “This is the reason so many people are fed up with Labour politicians”.
In ruling for the NEC, the judiciary has now lined up behind a plot that has the backing of the United Kingdom and USA intelligence services and is supported by the BBC, the Guardian and all sections of the media.
Speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival, Bragg, who has repeatedly lent Corbyn his backing, said Labour was failing to articulate new ideas, such as federalism for English regions.
They did so in defiance of a long-standing ban upon competing in elections, imposed by the England-based party leadership – a ban which Mr Corbyn himself had refused to overturn. I’ve been a Labour member for a while but I’ve never really been involved because I couldn’t connect with Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. There’s 300,000 people who’ve joined Labour recently.
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The MP for Birmingham Yardley also said she would struggle to remain in the party if the current political atmosphere did not dissipate.
