UK Labour not giving Cameron a free hand on EU

She may have lost out in the vote to represent Labour in the forthcoming London Mayoral elections, but Diane Abbott has regained a place in the shadow cabinet after left wing politician Jeremy Corbyn’s shock leadership win.

Mr Corbyn won close to 60 per cent of the votes – beating fellow candidates Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.

He said an appeal to the public to tell Labour they would like to ask the PM had produced 40,000 responses, from which he had selected six to fill the questions traditionally given to the leader of the opposition during the 30-minute session.

Earlier this summer, Mr Corbyn said he would recommit Labour to a publicly funded NHS, pledging to eradicate private finance initiative (PFI) funding, the repayments for which he claimed were leading to staff and service cuts at trusts.

Jeremy Corbyn will continue to draw up his shadow ministerial team after a hard meeting with MPs and peers that saw him face “hostile” questions.

Nick Brown, Labour MP for Newcastle East, said: “The Conservatives are taking as much as £1,300 per year from poorly paid families in work”.

The Bolton South East MP suggested that Mr Corbyn’s performance was an improvement on his predecessors.

The new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party faced heavy criticism today for remaining silent while the national anthem was sung at a religious service to commemorate the 75 anniversary of Nazi Germany’s air attacks on Britain.

“I want PMQs to be done in a rather different way – a bit less theatre and a bit more facts”, he said.

He has highlighted protecting worker’s rights as a key area where he believes more needs to be done.

UNION officials have welcomed Jeremy Corbyn and say his success is a victory for the working class.

Mrs Goodman told the Commons: “The most perverse thing about national insurance is the upper earnings limit, and including that in the legislation is a highly political act”.

He is renowned in the Party as being a maverick and has the reputation of being the most rebellious of all Labour MPs.

Steve Reed, Labour MP for Croydon North, exhorted Corbyn to unite the party following the three-month leadership contest.

“I want everyone to bring their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the ideas we all have, the imagination we all have”, he said.