Our political master are determined to prevent a similar mass rebellion putting Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street when an early general election is called in the autumn.
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Mr Corbyn is under huge pressure to stand down after more than 60 of frontbenchers resigned in protest at his leadership.
While Corbyn is now embroiled in turmoil, with “Blairites” in his party turning on him since last week’s European Union referendum results, where senior members of his Cabinet have resigned and 172 Labour MPs have signed a vote of no confidence in his leadership, he still maintains his anti-war convictions.
Labour MPs opposed to Jeremy Corbyn have reportedly conceded the embattled Labour leader can not be removed after lengthy negotiations between the party’s deputy leader Tom Watson and union officials failed to resolve the conflict.
Fabian Hamilton said he had told his Constituency Labour Party in Leeds North East he was standing down as a shadow Foreign Office minister as the party was divided and more than 80% of MPs no longer had any confidence in Mr Corbyn.
Mr Smith said he had been talking to Mr McCluskey and Mr Corbyn to “explore what I can do” to heal party rifts.
The local branch said a “high volume of members have joined Teesdale branch as a result of Jeremy’s leadership”.
The former Labour security minister said the arguments in favour of Trident are so logical that he believes Mr. Corbyn “lacks the mental capacity” to understand them. “There is a general view in the party that we should avoid a contest but if a deal can not be done then we can not continually delay action”.
His defiance of his party’s leader was met with fury among Corbyn’s supporters and a petition has been launched online calling for the “strongest possible action” against Mr Austin.
A few hundred pro-Israel demonstrators echanged words with the marchers while lines of police kept them physically separated. The Parliamentary Labour Party have made their views very clear.
“There’s an anonymous petition too, but I’m more interested in what people in Dudley say”.
“It was inclusive language I used which, with hindsight, I would rather not have used”, he said of using the term “friends” to describe Hezbollah and Hamas activists.
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A union source told the Press Association the meeting, planned to take place ahead of Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, would mean “the three main parts of the Labour Party for the first time coming together on this”.
