Labour’s Liz Kendall vows to ‘fight until the very end’

Shadow local government secretary Miss Reynolds accompanied Miss Kendall during a visit to Birmingham for a leadership hustings event in June.

“I think it would be disastrous for the party, it would be disastrous for the country, we’ll be out of power for a generation”, she said.

The poll prompted calls for Ms Kendall, who is trailing a distant fourth, to pull out and get behind Mr Burnham or Yvette Cooper.

In the meanwhile, “Nigel from Kent” might be anxious that if indeed Mr Corbyn does have his very own Clause Four moment, it’d be about immigration.

“I know I’ve had far more chances in life than my mum and my grandma because of what the Labour movement has done. If we do then the public won’t vote for us… because our thoughts are out of touch with the world they live in today”.

In any case, another MP was first elected to Parliament in 1983 – Tony Blair.

The only smiles you see on the faces of Labour types at the moment is when there’s a spot of gallows humour.

Mr Corbyn said he wanted to increase income tax but did not believe it would be “necessary” to go as high as 70p, claiming that restoring the 50p rate would being in billions for the Exchequer. “I felt that Labour were looking in all the wrong places for their support and trying to replicate 1997, which was a once in a generation thing”, she says. “They are morons”.

Tony Blair issued a stark warning to the party not to repeat the mistakes of the 1980s which consigned the party to 18 years in opposition.

Anguish His success, and the rise of “Corbyn fever”, has caused anguish among Labour’s more moderate wing.

Jeremy Corbyn, centre, at a demonstration against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Corbyn has surrounded himself with fellow travellers on the hard left, including John McDonnell, MP for Hayes & Harlington, and Simon Fletcher, who was Miliband’s link man with the unions. He has been criticised for observing a minute’s silence in 1987 for the eight IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar.

She also confirmed once again that she’d boycott a Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet. “Jeremy keeps saying he doesn’t want to be leader, he doesn’t want to win”, said one of the 35 MPs who supported him for the ballot paper. “Precisely the quality we need in our next Leader”. “It’s a big philosophical struggle inside the party”.

Craig said: “That was a pretty strong endorsement for Liz Kendall – common sense, credible alternative, new ideas not old ones, pretty much endorsing what Mr Blair said and backing Liz Kendall with her Blairite agenda and rejecting Mr Corbyn”.

Ucatt is asking its members to cast their first preference vote for leader for Andy Burnham and their second preference for veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn.

However, Frank Field said if Corbyn were to win it would turn the party into a “political sect” and likely put Labour out of power for years.

He said Labour should not attempt to imitate radical anti-austerity parties such as Spain’s Podemos or Greece’s Syriza. They feel that we are at a crucial point when it comes to deciding, as a nation and as a society, what our values are, and that only Corbyn offers an optimistic vision for the future.