And she said she did not “feel welcome” in the Labour Party because of the abuse she receives.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been filmed joining seatless commuters on the floor during a three-hour train ride to debate leadership challenger Owen Smith.
The largest donor was Martin Taylor, a hedge fund manager who has given more than £800,000 to Labour in the past.
The MP was asked directly by BBC journalist Martha Kearney whether she would sit as an independent if Mr Corbyn wins the current Labour leadership contest. There’s 300,000 people who’ve joined Labour recently.
But Foster lauded a Court of Appeal ruling later in the week that effectively reintroduced a voting ban on almost 130,000 Labour members in the leadership election in what is seen as a disadvantage to Corbyn. “Sorry Tom, it is nonsense – I think he knows it’s nonsense”.
A consultation by the Jewish Labour Movement of its members found just four per cent backed Mr Corbyn.
He said: “That wasn’t popular but overall the meeting was conducted in a good and respectful atmosphere”.
The party was going through a leadership election, the result of which would be decided by party members and supporters, with the victor declared in September. Using our mass membership we can organise within communities and communicate with voters in a more effective way than ever before.
“Something is rotten. You are either with them, or you are labelled as being against them and so excluded, briefed against, often threatened and intimidated”, Michael Foster writes, in a column titles “Why I despise Jeremy Corbyn and his Nazi stormtroopers”.
Speaking about Dame Margaret’s comments, Mr Corbyn told reporters: “I’ve known Margaret for a very long time and of course I’m very happy to work with her”.
Redcar MP Anna Turley and Stockton North’s Alex Cunningham have supported Mr Smith, along with Mr Blenkinsop, who said he was delighted his constituency party had nominated the MP for Pontypridd by 23 members to 12.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday about the Court of Appeal’s Friday ruling and his own unsuccessful foray into the courts, he said: “The courts decided that the rules as they stand allowed it (Mr Corbyn to be automatically included on the leadership ballot)”.
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Labour’s leadership election will go ahead with the exclusion of around 130,000 new members after five of their number dropped their legal challenge against the decision to bar them. “This caused the mask of reasonableness of the Corbynista leadership to slip even further”.
