As Labour right attack Corbyn-it’s right to resist austerity

He set out plans to stop the renewal of private operators’ franchises as passengers were told that low inflation would keep fare rises down next year. I think I have met some of them but they all sort of just float around and seem like they could have podded off of him [Tony Blair].

Mark Littlewood, director general of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs thinktank, said: “Calls for the renationalisation of the rail network fail to acknowledge the fact that despite being privatised in the 1990s, the Government has continued to interfere in the industry”.

The 36-year-old says she personally fought her general election campaign in Grimsby “on a message of hope” for the future and a need for the town to embrace new industries.

However, a number of councillors have come out in favour of Mr Corbyn, seen as the most left-wing candidate, who is running on an anti-austerity ticket, calling for higher taxes for the rich and endorsing the re-nationalisation of the railways and big energy companies.

Ms Cooper is locked in a bitter battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, while the other contender Liz Kendall lags behind in fourth place.

Previous leader Ed Miliband’s efforts to pull Labour to the left ended in an electoral rout this May.

Mr Corbyn, who has voted against the Labour leadership on hundreds of occasions since his election as the MP for Islington North, in London, in 1983, said he had always rebelled on a point of principle.

The ballots are out, and supporters of the U.K.’s Labour party now have about a month to decide their party’s new leader.

“There’s something happening out there”.

“I’m looking forward to meeting him and of course other members of the authority”.

Mr Burnham has warned it would be harder to unite the party following the leadership contest if “bad blood” and “negativity” were allowed to take over.

Writing in the Independent, Mr Corbyn said: ‘I will absolutely use our supporters to push our agenda up to the parliamentary party and get them to follow that.

Ms Kendall made clear in the interview she will devote herself to “serious thinking” about party policy from the backbenches if she loses.

Mr Corbyn has suggested he is the candidate best placed to win back the thousands of Scottish voters who deserted Labour for the SNP – and a Corbyn victory would certainly force a change in the “red Tories” jibes.

“But if all we could offer was cuts, but done in a slightly different way than the Tories had done for the last five years, then people simply didn’t want to know”.

“To fail to think anew is the road to electoral oblivion and it is a road we must not take”.