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UB40 backs United Kingdom opposition leader Corbyn

The Prime Minister claimed Mr Corbyn was “wrong” and the commitment has been delivered.

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Dugdale has backed Corbyn’s opponent Owen Smith in the Labour leadership contest.

The head-to-head came just weeks before voting in the race closes, with the victor to be named on September 24.

They emerged as the two contenders for the Labour leadership election prepared for their BBC Question Time hustings on Thursday evening.

Labour MPs, the majority of whom are hoping Mr Corbyn’s leadership is in its final weeks, watched baffled as the leader of the opposition failed to ask a single question about the biggest change facing the United Kingdom in a generation.

“We’ve seen some of those flags and banners at some of Jeremy’s rallies and some of those people are bringing attitudes that I don’t think are welcome”.

The Labour leader was told he has no support from his MPs, and his challenger was attacked for not having any support from the party’s members.

With Mr Corbyn due to face Theresa May at noon, Mr Smith gives an insight into the questions he would put to the PM if he led Labour.

In a statement, Smith said: “Tens of thousands of Labour members and trade unionists will be anxious to hear that Jeremy Corbyn appears to agree with David Davis that our membership of the single market is not worth fighting for”. To laughter and boos, Smith claimed that he was incredibly confident of beating Corbyn when the result is announced on 24 September.

The Labour leader came under fire after a senior aide suggested he might rule out full membership of the European single market unless Britain can negotiate exemptions from key EU rules. 29 per cent said they would vote for Owen Smith, with 5 per cent undecided.

Asked if that meant to ignore the Brexit vote, he replied: “Well, exactly”.

However, over the past few days, his attacks on the current Labour leader have become blunt and much more frequent.

The former work and pensions secretary said keeping the Labour leader in post would lead to another Tory general election victory and a continuation of the “housing crisis”.

The manifesto touts the creation of a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking; increased support for community-run energy cooperatives; and the creation of 300,000 new jobs in the renewables sector. “I have spent my life opposing racism in any form, as have you”, Corbyn said, making clear he had never supported Hamas.

He defended the anti-Semitism review and said “obviously it should be subject to review at a later stage to see how it is getting on”.

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But May dodged the question both times.

Jeremy Corbyn would create 200 new publically owned local energy companies and 1,000 publicly-backed community energy schemes