Ed Miliband Quit Reports ‘All Speculation’

Hunt, who had wanted to stand in the leadership contest but was unable to muster the support among fellow MPs, criticises the way party modernisers conducted their campaign on behalf of their favoured candidate, Liz Kendall. I seriously doubt Corbyn is that leader. One of the great unresolved issues is the extent to which Corbyn, by modifying his policies, can attract mainstream MPs on to his front bench. “The United Nations is quintessentially part of global law”, he said.

But is Corbyn actually calling for widespread nationalisation?

It’s for the very same reasons that members of the Conservatives and other opposing parties have reacted to Corbyn’s candidacy with glee, believing he will make it all but impossible for Labour to win an election. Similarly, on the European Union he has refused to say whether he favours withdrawal.

Corbyn does not command the same support within the parliamentary party.

“For me, it’s because I finally feel at home in the Labour party”. Burnham’s gaffes – his “when it’s time” remark about Labour having a woman leader, that he appears to have a clapometer instead of a moral compass – have discredited him in him the eyes of many.

Unless you’ve been in a vortex of isolation and doom for the last few months, you’ve probably heard by now that North London’s original Jam-making hustler has already won the hearts of many.

Cameron stressed that military action against IS was part of the “comprehensive programme” he envisages to tackle the migrants crisis which has seen thousands of people, including many Syrians, flock to Europe.

The Labour leadership front-runner suggested voters should be able to act with their “conscience” and order the Treasury not spend their tax money on soldiers.

Cooper’s criticism of people’s quantitative easing was echoed by Labour’s shadow chancellor Chris Leslie in August, who argued Corbyn’s “starry-eyed, hard left” economic strategies were doomed to fail.

Step forward the pseudo-left. The spokesperson neither directly confirmed or denied that Corbyn had made the comments. “Would this be coming if we were heading towards the exit door?” But the rottenness of the existing Labour Party, he warned, meant that it was up to Left Unity to provide Corbyn with the “social mobilisation” needed for his success. Otherwise, “Corbyn will be a sitting duck and our hopes will go down with him”. The fallen Labour chief is expected to announce his intention to campaign on environmental and inequality issues as a backbench MP in the coming days.

But if there’s one thing I didn’t expect to make a comeback, it’s socialism of the “up the workers, squeeze the rich, if it moves, nationalise it” variety.

Corbyn, 66, emerged as the surprise frontrunner in the contest earlier in the summer, campaigning on a left-wing, anti-austerity platform and causing panic amongst senior party figures. At the rally Corbyn spoke of solidarity with Bernie Sanders, who also isn’t the reason Americans are engaging with socialist ideals, it’s because the levels of inequality in the Western world are now really spiralling through the roof, affecting more and more lives.

But while Labour’s hopefuls are quick to pronounce on these structural reforms, there’s been hardly a peep from any of them about this Government’s reform agenda to restore standards in our schools, from improving the teaching of reading in primary schools to or our drive to learn from the Far East about maths teaching.