He told one interviewer: “I think there is every likelihood that the party will split if Jeremy wins this election”.
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Owen Smith, who was heckled at times, told an audience of several hundred people in Cardiff that he was “the person who has got the ideas in this debate”.
“It is us in local government who are the troops and on the frontline – we are the ones that interact with our communities”.
They say on their own website they are a collection of Labour members who have joined the party since January 12 and “feel let down and confused” over the decision to deny them the vote. “Two million Labour voters are telling us they would rather have a Tory prime minister than a Labour government and that’s got to be a wake-up call to everyone in this party”, he said.
Corbyn will speak in Dagenham, east London as part of his campaign to become re-elected as leader of the Labour Party. The 34-year-old added that “if you’ve seen the news he seems to be flying around the country talking to the same 2,000 people when he should be fighting issues.
Jeremy Corbyn’s 10 pledges to rebuild and transform Britain resonate with a generation facing a future of precarious work, student debts and a lack of housing”.
“We were ahead in May, then came the wave of resignations, then came the threat to unity in the party and that is what has put us behind in the polls”, he said.
Builders’ union Ucatt acting general secretary Brian Rye said: “Jeremy Corbyn is creating a dynamic blueprint of a kinder, fairer Britain”.
They will take part in two more Labour leadership hustings before the victor is announced on 24 September.
The battle for control of the party has exposed long-standing fault lines over Labour’s core values, and led to fears that it could split, with Smith warning this week that it was “teetering on the brink of a precipice”. He is one of the most ambitious career politicians I have met.
Corbyn’s plan also contains a promise to meet the UK’s commitments under the Paris Agreement, get the United Kingdom back on track to meet its carbon reduction targets under the Climate Change Act, and “defend and extend the environmental protections gained from the EU”.
Mr McDonnell accused Mr Smith of “advocating the policies that Jeremy Corbyn was elected on” and there is overlap with the infrastructure fund, a ban on zero hours contracts and benefit changes.
It comes after Owen Smith warned that Labour could split unless Mr Corbyn is removed.
Given existing plans and direction we are seeing broadband coverage move in the United Kingdom, one can only assume that the speech writer really meant to say we will invest in more Fibre to the Premises to catch up with other European countries.
“We could all be living richer lives”, he said. “I travelled the whole country doing a very large number of meetings”.
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The rally was also addressed by Barbara Campbell, a Momentum Teesside organiser and NHS campaigner, and Terry McPartlan, a Labour Party member for 36 years and chair of Gateshead Trades Council.
