Corbyn, an MP from London’s Islington North, was originally labeled a no-hoper and only barely gathered the minimum number of endorsements from fellow MPs to run for party leadership.
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Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Ummuna said the party was “still grieving” and that he would not serve under Mr Corbyn, as did Emma Reynolds, the Shadow Communities Secretary.
Mr Corbyn is on 53 % which led to the intervention of former Labour leader Tony Blair saying a Jeremy Corbyn win would be a disaster for the Labour party and would put the party back in the wilderness in the dark days of when people like Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock ruled the roost.
Left-winger Corbyn, who topped a poll by the Times today, was eliminated second, but saw his share of the vote rise by six per cent from a similar poll conducted last month.
“To suggest that somebody should have a transplant if they are making decisions by the heart is totally unacceptable”. “The so-called “trendy left” politics of the early 1980s was a contributory factor in covering up child abuse”, Mann said.
Professor John Gaffney, Professor of Politics at Aston University and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe, says: “Of course Corbyn is the most popular candidate for leader”.
“That’s the kind of society I want to live in”.
Prescott told the former prime minister to “calm down” after Blair warned that people who said their heart was with Jeremy Corbyn should “get a transplant“.
Britain’s former Prime Minister and former Labour Party leader, Tony Blair, reacts at an event a …
But among the public at large, Burnham’s net score is zero (because the 27% who say he could be a good PM match the 27% who say he could not).
Asked if she would stand aside, she said: “No. You never stop fighting for what you believe in”.
Most Labour insiders believe it is unlikely Corbyn will actually win the leadership race, particularly amid questions over the reliability of polls after their failure to predict May’s election result.
The problem, Mr Field said, was that the other candidates had “not responded in the way I hoped they would in taking the argument to him about whether he is or is not a deficit denier”.
Deputy Political Editor Joey Jones said: “None of the more mainstream candidates have managed to break from the pack and there’s every likelihood that if the Corbyn surge is not suppressed they will round on the individual whose support is looking weakest and suggest that they do the decent thing”.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage phoned in to the LBC debate, introducing himself as “Nigel from Kent”, to challenge the Labour candidates over whether they could ever see themselves voting No in the referendum on EU membership. Labour is seeking a new leader to rebuild the party after losing May’s General Election to the Conservative party, and left-wing candidate Corbyn’s message seems to have found strong support among party members, according to media reports Wednesday.
After a bruising day of recriminations the architect of its most successful electoral era said Ed Miliband’s tenure had left Labour with a “terrible legacy”.
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“Those of us who stayed and fought to save the Labour Party in the 1980s will be experiencing a growing sense of deja vu”, he told The Times.
