Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is coming to Brighton to address supporters at a rally on Tuesday (2 August).
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However, if the basis of the Save Labour movement is just a watered-down version of Corbyn-ism, then what is the point?
Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has been accused of talking up a split in the party – and warned he will be branded the “disunity candidate” if he fails to denounce the plotters.
However, supporters of Mr Corbyn, elected to power with a 60 per cent mandate from party members a year ago, insist the will of the whole party must be respected.
Addressing up to 10,000 of his supporters at a campaign event in Liverpool on Monday, Corbyn said the ongoing battle for leadership in the party provides an opportunity to unite Britons against the “Tory philosophy”.
The Labour leader pledged to ban zero-hours contracts, increase the living wage and repeal the Trade Union Act, which limits strike powers. I didn’t need to take a position on Jeremy’s frontbench, and could, like others chose to last September, have politely declined in order to work to represent constituents and our Party from the backbenches.
Mr Blanchflower told The Guardian Mr Smith had been better at consulting businesses and economists in three weeks than the current Labour leader had been over the last nine months, and Mr Wren-Lewis wrote on his blog that “a Corbyn-led party can not win in 2020”.
Speaking during Mr Corbyn’s campaign for Labour in the summer of 2015, Mr Ward said: “The grip of the Blairites and individuals like Peter Mandelson must now be loosened once and for all”.
“Jeremy should have used the European Union campaign to show his potential to become our next Labour Prime Minister”.
“We reject the notion that Labour needs to move to the centre ground of British politics”.
Mr Corbyn was holding rallies in Hull and Leeds as the two men continued to slug it out for the Labour crown before the victor is declared at the end of September.
“We have a one member, one vote system, so MPs will have the same amount of say as all Labour members – exactly as it should be”, Mr Smith said.
The debate has become so poisonous that most local party meetings have been suspended and Labour lawmakers say they have faced abuse ranging from rape threats to vandalised cars.
The nadir of Corbyn’s betrayal of his mandate was his authorisation of a free vote last December by Labour MPs, meaning they would not be censured or disciplined for supporting the bombing of Syria.
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In response to the Telegraph article, Corbyn described the revelations as “fairly bizarre” and called on the Blairites to “Think on and think again”.
