Yesterday a female Labour MP threatened to leave the party if the leader is re-elected, as she outlined the abuse she has faced from his supporters.
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Mr Smith will accuse Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of “covering-up” the true level of private sector spending after initial estimates for 2014/15 were revised up by more than a billion pounds.
Michael Foster, the Jewish Labour donor who launched a legal challenge against Jeremy Corbyn, has said he has been accused by supporters of the party leader of using false claims of antisemitism to smear left-wingers.
The MP was asked directly by BBC journalist Martha Kearney whether she would sit as an independent if Mr Corbyn wins the current Labour leadership contest.
The leadership vote comes after Labour MPs signed a vote of no confidence in Mr Corbyn, who won an overwhelming victory among members in last summer’s leadership contest.
Mr Corbyn, who is now fighting a campaign for re-election as leader, said he and supporters were holding public events in Labour strongholds and places which were yet to become so.
“I can’t see a Corbyn-led Labour winning many seats in either of these Labour heart lands”.
After Mr Watson earlier claimed “Trotsky entryists” were seeking to influence the party, Mr Corbyn told the Observer his elected deputy was talking “nonsense” because it is highly unlikely all 300,000 new members belonged to the revolutionary left.
“To repeat again, I have never said that all our new members are Trotskyists”.
The Labour leader has pledged to “rebuild and transform” the UK’s transport network to address the “transport nightmare” now faced by commuters. “I rather doubt that most of the parliamentary party want, or membership, actually want to see a split, not least because we’ve been there and done that and gave Thatcher unfettered power for a long time”.
The poll also suggested that a renewed Corbyn leadership would deter a significant number of people from voting Labour at the next general election.
He said, “People have had enough of the politics of inequality”.
The CLPNominations Twitter feed even found that in five CLPs the Labour leader received between 95 and 100% of the vote.
He will also draw attention to recommendations from regulator NHS Improvement – set up by Mr Hunt – which say private sector providers are being “under-utilised”.
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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. She added that she had allowed Tory MPs “free rein to crow and mock me” over the issue.
