Mr Smith said he was “incredibly proud” to gain Ms Dugdale’s vote, but Mr Corbyn’s campaign said she is likely to be outvoted by Labour members in Scotland and across the UK.
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Last week, a video of Jeremy Corbyn sitting in the hallway of a crowded train on the his way to a leadership debate went viral.
Virgin Trains has taken issue with British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s claim he was forced to sit on the floor on a recent journey.
But, alas, while Jez was sitting on the floor complaining about the company and hailing the merits of public ownership, there were vacant seats.
But Virgin Trains has released CCTV images which appear to show him and his team walking past empty reserved and unreserved seats at 11.07am before the filming began.
But Virgin Trains released CCTV images which appear to show Mr Corbyn and his team walking past empty unreserved and reserved seats at 11.07am.
A spokesman for the Jeremy for Labour campaign said: “When Jeremy boarded the train he was unable to find unreserved seats, so he sat with other passengers in the corridor who were also unable to find a seat”.
Later in the journey, seats became available after a family were upgraded to first class, and Jeremy and the team he was travelling with were offered seats by a very helpful member of staff’. “Isn’t that a good case for public ownership?”
Voting opened yesterday in the Labour leadership election with the party announcing a record breaking 640,000 eligible voters.
The filmmaker said there were a number of other passengers sitting on the floor during the initial part of the trip.
“Ultimately what we want to do is give more people more power to design their own democracy and what I mean by that is, for example, in this country we don’t even have a written constitution, we don’t even have our rights properly enshrined”.
“They then came up and said they had managed to find him some seats and I got the impression they had moved some people around”.
Virgin’s version was contradicted by a woman who said she had also sat on the floor of the train next to Mr Corbyn, having sent a social media photo of herself and her daughter with the Labour leader.
Ellen – who asked to not be fully named – told the Guardian that Mr Corbyn had seemingly gone through the entire standard-class section of the train but had not been able to find a seat.
“As Labour party members, we may not like how we reached this position but we have a decision to make”, she said. I was sat on the floor, there was no space for me to get a seat.
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“Passengers across Britain will have been in similar situations on overcrowded, expensive trains”. But 42 per cent think he understands ordinary people and 43 per cent think he is principled.
