Party members and supporters have until Thursday to choose between the 66-year-old left-wing veteran and his three rivals – all in their 40s – with the results due to be announced on September 12. But, equally, if Yvette Cooper is really going to beat Jeremy Corbyn, surely, surely, she wouldn’t be in third place behind Liz Kendall according to Sky’s post-debate poll.
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Corbyn has called for dialogue with the militant Palestinian Hamas movement and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah as part of Middle East peace talks and has said he will apologise for Britain’s role in the Iraq invasion if he becomes Labour leader. In the very best of Jewish traditions, it was a party that cared for others and not just for itself. In so doing they can send a signal about the kind of party we’re going to be in the next few years. Speaking in the Netherlands on Tuesday, Umunna called for solidarity in the party and did not rule out serving in a Corbyn cabinet.
In that respect we don’t see eye to eye with Chairman Corbyn.
“Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign playbook contains a more extreme narrative about his opposition to Blair’s legacy”.
Mr Corbyn, who delivered a 40-minute speech punctuated by applause, said he was running a campaign based on optimism.
Nonetheless, the turn to the left for the Labour Party predates Corbyn. If Labour is to remain “relevant” he argues, it needs to build relations with “social networks” that can provide it with a base of support. I once interviewed Sir Tim Bell, Thatcher’s advisor for the 1979 election, asking him whether this takeover of the Conservative party wasn’t a kind of right-wing Trotskyite coup. Watson will say in his speech in Dudley: “Mandatory reselection of MPs…is an inherently intolerant mechanism, which isn’t helpful to the process of drawing the party together”. This “stunning” incident, he wrote, was evidence of how “the Party remains out of touch with the vast majority of people throughout the country”.
A senior source from one leadership campaign team told MailOnline: ‘There are genuinely lots of people who haven’t had their papers.
Britain’s surprising new political star is a rumpled 66-year-old with a set of socialist ideas many thought had faded with the Cold War.
Step forward the pseudo-left.
With just a week to go until the leadership announcement, Betfred has seen a surge in bets on Ms Cooper, who now has the second most favourable odds after frontrunner and MP for Islington North Jeremy Corbyn.
Asked how the party would improve its prospects, he said: “By investment to create jobs, investment in housing and the regulation of the private rented sector to give real security to tenants rather than the insecurity of six months shorthold tenancies and the danger of having to move over that”. And we are saying the problem was that Labour lost the election not because we were too left-wing or spent too much, because we were not offering a clear economic alternative. The prime minister at the time, Harold Wilson, as have nearly all British prime ministers since that time displayed a strong friendship toward the Jewish community and toward Israel, regardless of the fact that he did not necessarily agree with Israel’s post-1967 policies regarding the Palestinians and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Corbyn appears to be an honest, hard-working parliamentarian who cares about his constituents.
