U.K. Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for companies to discourage employees from having after-work drinks because the culture discriminates against mothers. It is understood that no one in the party spoke against or for the motion at the first meeting of the PLP after the summer recess. The result of the voting is expected to be announced at a Leadership Conference in Liverpool on September 24.
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But he said it would also put pressure on former shadow ministers to put their differences aside and return to the top team.
This morning, Smith said: “There is a risk that if Jeremy does with the contest we are back in groundhog day with Labour divided, with Jeremy unable to fulfill that most fundamental task of the leader of the Labour Party, holding together the coalition that is Labour – and it’s always been a coalition”.
The tabloid included a short piece in its Daily Mail Comments article about the Q&A which took place on Wednesday with Mr Corbyn.
The Parliamentary Labour Party is due to debate this proposal later.
A total of 27 out of the 36 members who voted backed Jeremy Corbyn, whilst just nine voted for Owen Smith.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey suggested in late June that intelligence agencies could be using “dark arts” against the current Labour leadership. “I think Britain would be unrecognisable by the end of that period”.
He is reported to have told Corbyn: “I’ve done something you’ve never done, and that’s beaten the Tories”. “It increases the power of patronage, it reduces the accountability of the leader to Labour MPs”.
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In the case of Ellesmere Port MP Mr Madders the scenario is particularly embarrassing as he is in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet with a health portfolio and his own Ellesmere Port & Neston Constituency Labour Party has nominated Corbyn.
