“Today what is holding people back above all are inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination”, he said.
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Last week, Smith launched his campaign for Labour leadership with a focus on addressing inequality, promising a £200bn development fund to “rebuild physical and social infrastructure”. Often the only taste of parliamentary business that members of the public regularly get, the box-office drama known colloquially as PMQs is seen as a barometer of how well party leaders are doing and they spend hours preparing for it. When Corbyn, who has refused to resign despite an overwhelming vote of no confidence by his own lawmakers, asked about unscrupulous bosses, May gave a flavour of her sense of humour. The registration deadline has been set for July 20 at 5pm. It follows long deliberations by the Labour National Executive Committee (NEC) on whether the leader was automatically included in the ballot paper.
Owen Smith will challenge current leader Jeremy Corbyn in a two-horse race following the close of nominations yesterday.
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In addition to the 183,000 new members, the final verdict on Labour’s leadership will be given by a party members who signed up before January, estimated at 388,407 by the Guardian.
The party’s front benches could not look less anxious by the Labour team opposite them – and many are actually laughing.
“I would absolutely want him to take a role like president, or chairman, as we have had in the past”.
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“I want Labour to make a practical difference to peoples’ lives”, he told Christian Today.
If no candidate received more than 50% of the first preference votes, the candidate with the fewest first preference votes will be eliminated and their second preference votes allocated.
Responding to one on statistics showing two-thirds of children living in poverty have a parent in work, she said: “We are concerned about it, but the answer is not the Labour Party’s of unlimited welfare – the answer is a strong economy that delivers jobs and delivers well-paid jobs”.
Corbyn kicked off his campaign with a speech in London in which he simultaneously offered the hand of friendship and the slap of deselection to Labour MPs.
“That’s why I’m supporting Owen Smith”. The basics Owen Smith, 46, has been the MP for Pontypridd in Wales since 2010.
Smith served as Welsh spokesman under Miliband and was made work and pensions spokesman under Corbyn. “The extent to which the court should err towards inclusiveness in an action inevitably depends on the facts but in this case the court finds that 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”, she said.
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Mr Smith stressed his commitment to the NHS this week, saying: “It is a gross exaggeration and extrapolation of one comment in a press release about a report commissioned by Pfizer before I worked there, at a period in which the last Labour government was using the word choice to describe getting private providers to do hip and knee and cataract operations”. “However, it is not enough to just be anti-austerity, we need a concrete plan for prosperity”.
