Jeremy Corbyn ‘good at opposition’, says Andy Burnham backer David Blunkett

Mr Straw said: “I am voting for Yvette Cooper”.

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

Mr Burnham said he would welcome veteran left-winger Mr Corbyn – the frontrunner in the contest – into his shadow cabinet but added that a party led by the Islington MP “will get slaughtered on day one”. 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].

Mr Rabbitte, who was leader of the Irish Labour Party from October 2002 until August 2007, said Irish party members should not attempt to influence their British counterparts during the campaign.

“And the point is this – Jeremy has been an MP for 30 years”. The Jewish Chronicle said British Jews expressed “deep foreboding at the prospect of Mr. Corbyn’s election as Labour leader”, The Guardian reported.

The new leader will be announced on 12 September.

“Many Swindon Labour members and union activists believe Jeremy Corbyn is the candidate that can re-invigorate the movement and focus our direction with housing, health, jobs and welfare at the core of a caring society that leaves no-one behind”.

“I could not attempt to pay £3 and get a vote even though I would have liked to have done so, because I have stood against New Labour candidates in recent elections”.

Only about one in three of those eligible to vote in this Labour leadership election were members of the Party before May.

He told his viewers that he did not want to become a “de facto spokesman for people who don’t vote” and pledged to stop talking about politics, but it appears he could not help being lured back into political discourse by the current contest.

The Scartho ward councillor said: “It was refreshing there are still people who want to stand by their views and party’s ideology”. Corbyn, like Sanders in the U.S., speaks to the prevailing disenchantment with the insincerity of ordinary politics.

It came after his Blairite leadership rival Liz Kendall has signalled a willingness to join the group set up by Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt which has reportedly dubbed “the resistance” in party circles.

“The objective is to change the Labour party but also to approach the election with the strength and confidence to win, and the strength and confidence to take it through to the next stage”.

Labour has been through this before: After losing to Margaret Thatcher’s Tories in 1979, it had a long and passionate affair with socialism before finally putting centrist Tony Blair in charge in 1994.

They spoke alongside each other at an anti-war rally and a debate in a room within Parliament in 2009, shortly after which the radical was blocked from re-entering the UK by then Labour home secretary Jacqui Smith. “I’ve received some vicious antisemitic abuse…”