Upstart Corbyn made favorite in UK Labour leadership race

A natural rebel, he has voted against the Labour Whip a record 236 times, or 124 times more than William Hague.

With two weeks left for people to register to vote in the Labour leadership contest Cllr John Knight, Labour portfolio holder for culture at Notts County Council, presents his own unique guide to the candidates.

Ms Cooper warned that the party would be “condemning our world to a Tory future” if Mr Corbyn wins the race to succeed Ed Miliband.

Policies in Mr Corbyn’s Working With Women document included forcing companies to publish equal pay audits and moving towards universal free childcare.

After a very drab and lifeless Labour leadership race, the sudden surge in support for Jeremy Corbyn has at last provided some entertainment by scaring the hell out of most media commentators.

The survey put Mr Corbyn on 42%, with Ms Cooper on 22.6%, Mr Burnham on 20% and Liz Kendall on 14%.

After second preferences are distributed, his lead narrows to 51% compared with Ms Cooper on 49%. “We have a painfully long way to go before that’s the case”.

Its Labour leadership candidate,

Jeremy Corbyn,

has none-too-subtly fused opposition to austerity at home with an attack on “a usurious Europe that turns its smaller nations into colonies of debt peonage”.

Asked about a discussion on Mumsnet about some users calling him sexy, Mr Corbyn said: ” This is the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever heard”.

“It seems plausible to them that they just need to have a very firm anti-austerity argument” to counter Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s program of spending cuts, Fielding said. “Actually, I don’t do personal, I’m more interested in ideas and politics”.

IN May, the Scottish Labour Party were nearly wiped out at the general election.

Corbyn has represented the traditionally radical riding of Islington in North London for 30 years, viewed as a quaint but harmless relic of the past, so stuck in his ideological rut that one of his three wives left him because he refused to send their son to a better school.

I am in no way suggesting we should not stand for election. Earlier last week, Mann accused Corbyn of inaction over a child abuse scandal in his constituency in the 1980s.

‘Of course there is a lot of soul searching across the party. Instead Jeremy is about getting everyone together and working collectively. Otherwise we are going to let people down.’.

The Cooper camp – which stressed that its data was just a snapshot – also pointed to the Mirror leaked poll as proof that Ms Cooper was the only candidate who could now “stop Corbyn”.

It emerged yesterday that dozens of Labour staff have been employed listening to calls from potential members to guard against infiltration from the hard left.

He insisted he should be allowed to explain why he disagrees with Mr Corbyn without “people trying to silence me or others”.

Abbott refused to apologise for Labour’s track record on immigration: “we should be thankful” she said, and the wars in the Middle East are the “fault of the west”.

In their letter, Wilson and Glass wrote: “We believe it is incumbent on you to state clearly to the party membership, and more importantly to the country, your position on membership of the EU before the ballot papers are despatched in August”.

She said that a special party unit had blocked attempts by former Militant councillor Derek Hatton and Tory columnist Toby Young to vote in the contest. In Bristol we estimated about 18,000 people may have split their vote, electing Green councillors but “playing safe” in the national elections, even in seats which were nowhere near marginal such as Bristol East or South.