Left-wing Corbyn frontrunner to lead Britain’s Labour party

Jeremy Corbyn is “cautious” about his chances of victory in the Labour leadership contest despite an opinion poll giving him a clear lead and the bookmakers installing him as favourite to win.

More than 500 turned up to the hotel’s ballroom to hear the man now tipped to take over talk about how he plans to lead the party out of the political doldrums.

Joan Ryan, the Enfield North MP who assumed the role this week, told The Jewish Chronicle: “We hope that Labour party members and supporters will consider when they vote which candidate is best placed to ensure that the next Labour government can play a constructive and engaged role in the crucial search for a two-state solution”.

“Life had moved on from the old Clause IV in 1994 let alone 2015”.

He said that Labour had spent years defending itself from “entryism” but “we have handed our Party to them on a plate!”

Veteran pollster Peter Kellner of YouGov, which carried out the survey, declared: “I would personally be astonished if Mr Corbyn does not end up as Labour’s leader – but I have seldom released a poll with as much trepidation as I have done this time”.

But when I went down to a Q&A session with Jeremy Corbyn in the marginal seat of Croydon Central, his supporters did not seem too anxious.

He said that Labour will not even be allowed “over the doorstep” by voters in marginal constituencies if Mr Corbyn becomes leader of the Labour party, adding that his flagship policies will be met with a “deafening” silence.

“Corbyn’s odds have collapsed from 100/1 to 1/2 in the space of a few weeks”, Ladbrokes’ head of political odds, Matthew Shaddick, said in an e-mailed statement.

The campaign team for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham declined to comment on Corbyn’s suggestion that Labour could readopt Clause IV, which was originally drafted in 1918 during the party’s early years of existence.

MEMBERS of Westmorland and Lonsdale’s Labour party voted overwhelmingly in favour of nominating Jeremy Corbyn as the party’s new leader.

An additional 70,000 registered supporters, who each paid £3, and 92,000 affiliated supporters from trade unions and other groups with links to Labour, will make up the rest of the electorate.

He said: “I don’t doubt for a second there are lots of enthusiastic people who have joined who want something bigger from politics who are drawn to what Jeremy is saying”. New Labour was not to be seen exclusively as a Socialist Party, but one which accepted that Capitalism and Liberalism had some parts to play. “I don’t see the urgency”, he said.

Burnham first voiced his opposition to fracking at a leadership hustings in June, where he said fracking could pose a danger to communities as licences are “handed out like confetti” without enough focus on environmental or safety concerns.