Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn ‘was urged to quit contest’

“Were you sent here by Conservative party headquarters?”

He said: “Jeremy Corbyn has dragged two of the Labour leadership candidates to the left”.

However, no senior party leader has yet worn a white poppy on Remembrance Day, the annual ceremony when the Queen leads political leaders and veterans honouring the war dead.

“So it’s not about one individual”.

“… I think I know a lot of people respected him a lot less at the end than at the beginning…”

Check back this weekend for the result and reaction. Mr Watkinson of the Conservative party?’ “We’re moving forward into the 2020s”.

Liz Kendall is trailing on distant odds of 100/1.

In terms of her general effectiveness as a Labour shadow minister and overall performance in the deputy leadership contest, Flint deserves a top role on merit regardless of who is elected as leader.

He told the Telegraph: “The last person who expected to get this job and wants it is Jeremy himself”.

“Anybody who is eligible to vote and needs more help can contact leadership2015@labour.org.uk for more information”, a spokesman said.

Should he win, Corbyn would do well to follow the same measured approach he has taken during the lengthy leadership campaign in picking his frontbench team.

“What I love about it is, it is showing respect for the memory of the way the Higdons stood up for working class children, farmworkers’ children in this area, and we should remember many of our rights and liberties were won by people who made fearless stances in the past”.

An informed debate about Mr Corbyn’s proposals would be welcome, but the sniping should stop.

The ballot for electing the new leader will close today, but there are concerns over swathes of party supporters who have been unable to cast their votes because of technical problems.

“It is just ridiculous”.

Even as the Tory MPs cheered Jeremy Corbyn getting to his feet to ask a backbench question of the PM on Monday, back in CCHQ they’ve started talk again of the “extinction curve” and the real threat to the Tory party over time. “From start to finish it has been a cock-up”.

But a letter sent to campaign teams yesterday said the helpline was being shut down, and it was now “too late” to change email addresses.