Jeremy Corbyn to focus on education and bringing Labour together

He has said he will “wipe the slate clean” for MPs who have criticised him, but some still fear a backlash.

And the decision to kick the issue into the long grass is likely to make it more hard for Mr Corbyn to persuade critics who quit his frontbench team in June to return.

The incumbent party leader and veteran left-winger won 61.8 percent of the just over 506,000 Labour Party members, trade unionists and registered supporters who voted in the leadership contest. It’s what I’ve wanted the whole of my entire life.

“There will always be those Tories who want to write off the Labour years, and pretend no good came from them”. The Labour Party central office was unable to confirm the exact number to date but said it was 640,000 if registered supporters and affiliated members are included.

Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned that a failure to unite after the leadership contest could kill off Labour forever. But sceptical Labour MPs see the plans as a way of putting more pressure on them to abandon moderate policies. He insisted Labour could win the next election by positioning itself as the country’s “engine of progress”.

The Labour leader promised to reverse the planned cuts to the levy, which are due to fall to 17% by 2020, and indicated that it could actually rise even further.

Lord Parry Mitchell, a prominent member of the British Labour Party and former Labour member of the House of Lords, quit the party on Saturday over what he called the “violent anti-Israel views” of the allies of party leader Jeremy Corbyn. “It’s not necessarily a box-ticking exercise”. It’s also the relationships with the community, the effectiveness of representation and all those issues.

“Let’s have a democratic discussion and, I think, the vast majority of MPs will have no problem whatsoever”.

He said he now wants to concentrate on setting out policies on how Labour planned to achieve social justice.

MPs voted overwhelmingly earlier this month to restore elections, in order to give the parliamentary party more control over the choice of shadow ministers.

Derek Hatton applied past year to re-join the Labour party but said the issue is still not resolved and he is not a party member. These moves were seen by pro-Corbyn supporters as moves to try and restrict the MP from retaining his lead – however, if such moves were intended in such a way, they have fallen flat.

A ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror found that 16 per cent of voters thought Labour was likely to win the next general election under Corbyn’s leadership, against 65 per cent for May’s Conservatives.

Asked by the BBC if she’s in danger, she said: “I hope I’m not, but I know that there are people who are agitating against me”.

Labour has been urged not to delay plans to grant the Welsh wing of the party greater autonomy and put a representative of Wales on the ruling National Executive Committee. She gestured towards the turmoil in Labour in the 1980s, saying that “no matter what positions women were taking elsewhere in the party, we worked together for progress”. She told the Guardian in 2012 that she is used to being underestimated because of her youth, her gender and her northern accent: “I’m a pretty young woman, lots of red hair, and everyone expects me to be stupid when I walk into a meeting for the first time”.