Ed Miliband gives backing to Owen Smith for Labour leadership

In a picture with supporters, Mr Corbyn tweeted after the meeting: “Proud to be nominated by my own CLP with a turnout of 370”.

“Sooner or later, that always end up in disaster”.

The executive committee of the Prison Officers Association, which is not affiliated to Labour, also supported Mr Corbyn, saying it will encourage its members who may be in the party to vote for him.

Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith face each other for the second time in a hustings tonight.

COMMUNIST Party leader Robert Griffiths has slammed the “fertile imagination” of rightwingers who say far-left infiltrators are taking over the Labour Party.

The left-wing candidate previously hit the headlines amid allegations former Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy had attempted to block her nomination by his local party.

The Labour leader claimed that his deputy was “peddling baseless conspiracy theories” after an interview in which Mr Watson alleged that young activists who back Mr Corbyn are being manipulated by experienced Marxist ideologues who are not interested in seeing a Labour government elected.

She told BBC Radio 4’s World At One: “Ultimately we have to have a much more healthy conversation around reselection, if not mandatory reselection”.

Mrs Lewell-Buck told the Gazette: “I’ve never had an invite to this meeting, and I don’t even recall the last time I spoke to John Watson face-to-face, it might have even been at last year’s Miners Gala which was more than 12 months ago”. Smith said he did not need to be as Corbyn had made his thoughts clear “for 40 years”.

But I don’t think the vast majority of people that have joined the Labour Party and have been mobilized by the people that are in Momentum are all Trots and Bolsheviks.

But Mr Smith said he believed Labour had “not fought anywhere near hard enough” to speak up for Europe and that the leadership shown by Mr Corbyn “was not sufficient”.

However, Cllr Crooks commented: “There are factions in every party – who do these MPs think they are?”

Corbyn’s refusal to step down prompted the leadership contest, which he on Thursday suggested was to blame for Labour’s dire performance in polls by YouGov.

“Anti-Semitism has no part in a progressive party”.

Following the June 23 vote to leave the European Union, most of the party’s lawmakers responded by rejecting left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn.

All of the policies we want to put in place all of the principles we hold dear are worth nought because we will not be able to translate any of that into power. McDonnell said, “There is no way I am ever going to allow this party to split”.