Jeremy Corbyn ‘should pull out of Stop the War coalition fundraiser’

The website had hosted a piece by activist Matt Carr which attacked Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn for voting to back RAF bombing in Syria.

That might involve a reshuffle, but after Labour’s success in the Oldham West and Royton byelection and Corbyn’s success in winning majority support for his position on airstrikes, even on a free vote, he wants to concentrate on ensuring that shadow ministers such as Hilary Benn reflect the leader’s thinking.

Stop The War has said it has condemned terror atrocities, such as the Paris attacks, and has a democratic right to protest against military action.

Tristram Hunt said it was a “disreputable” organisation as he appealed to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn not to attend a fundraising event for the group in London later this week.

The Labour leader – who was the group’s chair prior to his election as party leader – is slated to appear at a fund raising dinner this week.

Jeremy Corbyn proved that he’s still a man of the people on Saturday, as he donned a Santa hat and went carol singing to raise money for Syrian refugees.

The group has also caused outrage with comments suggesting Paris had “reaped the whirlwind” for Western actions in the Middle East and comparing jihadists to the International Brigade volunteers who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

Stoke-on-Trent Central MP Tristram Hunt has criticised the Stop The War coalition for what he labelled “pretty ugly” online abuse of Labour MPs.

According to Tom McTague, Mr Corbyn’s team has finally had enough of the continuous attacks on his leadership by moderate Labour MPs.

The graffiti translates roughly as “I think Jeremy Corbyn would make a great world leader” and goes against the general consensus in the UK.

They picketed Labour party headquarters when we were trying to run a phone bank for the Oldham by-election.

On reports of online abuse, he said: “If a very, very small number of people behaved in a manner, trolling, which have been so-called bullying or harassing, obviously I and Momentum would absolutely condemn that 100%”.

Among the “smears” are an allegation, labelled “categorically untrue” by Mr Corbyn’s allies, that he briefly passed out due to stress.

Asked about the Christmas fundraiser, Ms Nandy told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics: “I can’t tell him what he should do with his diary”.

A spokesperson for Corbyn rsaid: “The anti-war movement has been a vital democratic campaign which organised the biggest demonstrations in British history and has repeatedly called it right over 14 years of disastrous wars in the wider Middle East”.

Almost a dozen members of the shadow cabinet were among 66 Labour MPs to support the government over military action Syria, defying Mr Corbyn who had urged them to oppose intervention.

“In my estimation, Jeremy Corbyn’s mistake this week was not imposing the whip on the war vote and not inviting those who disagreed with him to resign from the shadow cabinet, as he could have done, and represented a party as a coherant political party”.

Mr Hunt, who decided not to serve under Mr Corbyn, said talk of a “purge” of opponents seemed a bit of a “Sunday story”.

Senior party sources played down claims that Mr Corbyn was planning a “revenge reshuffle” against Shadow Ministers like Mr Benn.