I’m sure Mr Corbyn will be very disappointed.
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“It’s now become commonplace in the Labour party, so something has gone badly wrong under his watch”.
His rivals insist that he can not win a national election and will not give Labour a strong enough voice in Britain’s upcoming Brexit negotiations.
Labour has been locked in a bitter power struggle since the 23 June Vote to leave the European Union, with critics of Corbyn saying he did not work hard enough to persuade the party’s voters to back remaining in the bloc.
Launching his leadership fightback, the Labour leader said it was the “responsibility of every Labour MP to get behind the party”.
Angela Eagle has dropped out of the Labour leadership contest.
At the launch of his re-election campaign, Mr Corbyn said: “At the moment, selection takes place when there is a trigger ballot system, where a constituency party decides whether or not it wishes to have a full selection process”. We have contacted the police and they have said we should cancel surgeries for safety reasons.
Anyone who was a member of the Labour Party prior to January 12 this year is already eligible to vote and does not need to register or pay.
Labour moderates and lefties have been engaged in a mad scramble to sign up supporters as Owen Smith goes up against Jeremy Corbyn in this summer’s contest – at a cost of £25.
Mr Corbyn insisted he is not a bully, and described Mr McGinn’s specific claim as “untrue”.
Mr Corbyn confirmed that all Labour MPs would face re-selection when new parliamentary boundaries – reducing the number of seats from 650 to 600 – come into force in 2018.
Some 380,000 official members who joined the party before 12 January are also eligible to vote.
Ms Stuart, a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign, argued Labour needed to respect the decision of the British people.
The threats by the pro and anti-Corbyn camps raised the prospect of Labour’s civil war continuing after the leadership election.
And in her first PMQs Theresa May was reminiscent of the former prime minister in how she swatted off questions from Jeremy Corbyn.
The MP said she does not usually operate the surgeries during August and will be looking at bringing in new arrangements for September when they would usually start again.
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“In this case the court finds that Mr Corbyn is a member of the Labour Party who is particularly affected and particularly interested in the proper construction of the rules, and his interest in that regard is of a significantly different quality than that of other members”.
