Jeremy Corbyn has floated the idea of letting Labour party members choose some members of his top team in a move to counter calls for the return of full shadow cabinet elections.
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His dossier states: “Jeremy Corbyn says he won’t tolerate abuse but he has repeatedly downplayed or denied abuse was happening, told people to ignore it, criticised actions to tackle it and his campaign and those in his inner circle have actively taken part in it”.
Some 64% of Labour members polled said they planned to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
“80% of constituency parties, local parties that nominated, nominated me for the leadership”.
Owen smith’s campaign called the suggestion ‘blind assertion’.
“But political leaders also need to commit to strong and effective means of enforcing those laws because if oversight is not to be provided by the EU Commission and the European Court of Justice in future, then the lead must come from government and the United Kingdom courts”.
A Labour spokeswoman said the party had “a robust validation process for all votes in this year’s leadership contest”.
Elsewhere, Bookmaker William Hill has said Corbyn, who nearly secured 60% of the vote in 2015, is now a “virtually unbackable” favourite to win the contest, with odds of 1/25 (96% chance of victory).
“We have to be a credible government-in-waiting and win the next election”.
Smith has also said that he would hold a second referendum on the European Union because he says the British public were lied to about extra funding for the NHS and better trading deals. “The 65 per cent by 2030 [target] is a minimum and as the cost of renewables falls we will look to expand, looking at the most cost effective way of meeting the 2030 decarbonisation goal”.
On the BBC’s Daily Politics, he said: “The thing that worries me is I fear that Labour at the moment is becoming a party around Jeremy Corbyn which thinks strengthening its base in opposition is sufficient”.
David Dimbleby pressed: “Do you want us to remain in the single market, if that is possible, or is it not possible in your view?”
“That means that we have to be prepared to obviously develop those trade relations with other countires as well”.
“And, I would want us to develop trade relations that empower democratic government, don’t undermine it and give power to global-corporations”. Instead of looking surly as they sit behind him in Parliament, they’ll throw peanuts at him during Prime Minister’s Questions, then release chickens to cluck round the Commons while he’s speaking, and let ferrets loose and set fire to John McDonnell’s jacket. “It indicates our leader is not holding Theresa May to account”.
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The Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith had claimed that Labour has trailed behind the Conservatives in a number of polls during Corbyn’s time as leader, branding the party’s current position as “disastrous”.
