This week the rows about the Labour leadership election reached a new nadir.
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“I hope party members and supporters listen to these voices and vote for Owen Smith”.
Singer Billy Bragg yesterday reaffirmed his support for Mr Corbyn after he claimed the Labour leader was stuck in the last century.
It follows other strong indications that the current Labour leader is on course to retain his crown, including him securing the backing of 285 constituency parties compared with 53 who nominated Mr Smith.
But Mr Corbyn has now personally accused Mr Watson of talking “nonsense” as the Labour leadership contest grew increasingly intense.
CLP secretary Gavin George said the high court case to determine who was eligible to vote led to some new members being excluded from the meeting on Friday.
“When it came to a vote the figures speak for themselves”.
Labour’s NEC nominated a Procedures Committee, whose members include Watson and General Secretary Iain McNicol, which then imposed a membership cut-off date created to disenfranchise party members.
“I have floated a few ideas, maybe going back to electing our shadow Cabinet that we had prior to Ed Miliband’s reforms, looking at the way party reform could be simplified, trying to work out how you become a Labour Party member and simplify the way you participate in the party”.
But Foster lauded a Court of Appeal ruling later in the week that effectively reintroduced a voting ban on almost 130,000 Labour members in the leadership election in what is seen as a disadvantage to Corbyn.
The most recent polling puts Corbyn overwhelmingly ahead of contender Owen Smith, with bookies also fancying the incumbent.
Mr Williamson – who lost his seat by 41 votes in 2015 – said: “I think people are fans of Jeremy Corbyn, but the reason people are fans of Jeremy Corbyn is because of his policy agenda”. It would be wrong of me to say anything else. It showed 60 per cent of the public think he will take victory, with men, women and people in every age, social and political group sure his victory is sealed.
He called on his supporters to use his election campaign to build a “mass movement”, adding, “The issues around the election are wider and more general than just the leader of the Labour Party”.
Earlier, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said she would reject any deal, coalition or pact with the SNP to get Labour into power at Westminster.
Charnwood, and Leicester East supported Mr Smith.
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“Personally, I’ve found the whole debacle to be an exercise in navel gazing at a time when the people who need us to be united in opposition with a view to govern are being let down, so it’s no surprise to me that we find ourselves trailing in the polls and deservedly so”.
