But Smith said Labour would never make it to power with Corbyn as leader.
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Meanwhile, Mr Smith warned that the re-election of Mr Corbyn could leave a generation without their own home.
He also said a Labour government would phase out coal-fired power by 2025 and would set a target for the U.K.to generate 65 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
Theresa May used her first Prime Minister’s Questions since MPs returned to parliament after the summer break to take swipes at the divisive leadership of Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn.
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”. “Westminster needs big change, and Jeremy is the man to do it”. “This will deliver clean energy and curb energy bill rises for households; an energy policy for the 60 million, not the big six energy companies”, he will say.
That prompted Mr Corbyn’s team to stress that he backed “full access” to the single market for goods and services but opposed certain directives linked to it, such as state aid rules and requirements to deregulate and privatise public services.
“I don’t wish to go to war; what I want to do is achieve a world where we don’t need to go to war, where there is no need for it – that can be done”. It brings jobs, growth and investment.
In addition, it confirms a Labour government under Corbyn would match all European Union environmental directives if Britain leaves the European Union and oppose any Brexit deal that curbs environmental protections, which some leading Leave campaigners have argued should be scrapped.
But leadership rival and Pontypridd MP Mr Smith highlighted comments from August a year ago in which Mr Corbyn said mines in South Wales could be reopened.
Corbyn was forced to fend off a series of attacks from Owen Smith, however, over his competence in the top job and the suggestion that Labour had trailed the Tories in more than 80 opinion polls over the last 12 months.
But based on how close the hiring process is to the election announcement, IBTimes UK asked Corbyn’s office if this was an indication he was confident of victory over his sole challenger Owen Smith.
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“We have to be a credible government-in-waiting and win the next election”.
