Labour front-runner Corbyn returns to Merseyside this weekend

There remains six weeks until the Labour Party announces its new leader, and at the moment Jeremy Corbyn is confounding everyone’s early expectations by leading the race.

Following a UK general election in May which saw often-controversial Prime Minister David Cameron re-elected for the maximum of a five-year term (which he has stated will be his last before bowing out), there has been growing pressure on the rival party, Labour, to find a suitable and dynamic replacement for Ed Miliband, who resigned as head of the party following their defeat nearly three months ago.

Jeremy Corbyn takes part in a Labour Party leadership conference in Warrington, north west England on July 25, 2015.

Dr Holman said: “I am looking forward to working with members to progress the values that we all share”.

“Looking to the future, I want us to become more involved with our local communities in the way that we work, and to strive to promote the well-being and social inclusion of everyone in the constituency”.

She added: “We have got a very, very detailed verification process of listening in to phone calls to make sure that when people are signed up to be an affiliated supporter that they are people who support the Labour party”. Having risen up the ranks to be in with a real shout of winning the helm of the shadow cabinet, it seems that anything is possible right now in British politics – and everyone will be watching in September to see who the party pick to lead them into battle for the next five years.

The warnings came after reports of a private poll giving Mr Corbyn a lead of more than 20 points over Ms Cooper on first preference.

The left-leaning MP, who is running against fellow candidates Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, was particularly critical of the government’s housing strategy, which has left its mark in Islington, with 19,000 people on the waiting list for social housing.

The party is facing an influx of up to 140,000 activists with the number of full Labour members expected to be 66,000 higher than on May 8 by the cut-off point for signing up of August 12.

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church was packed to the rafters, with 800 people queuing up for a talk on Mr Corbyn’s leadership bid and Hackney MP Diane Abbott’s attempt to become the party’s mayoral candidate.

But Mr Straw, who served under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said New Labour had “worked brilliantly” and the party could win again only if it reconciled itself to the benefits of a market economy while seeking to “moderate” them.

Pressed if he would go back to Labour should Mr Corbyn win and ask him to return, Mr Galloway said: ” Definitely. It would be hard for any person with a sense of history to avoid comparisons between Foot and Corbyn, or to notice that many of his young supporters would have no memory of the long, dark tunnel Labour passed through in the 1980s. A LabourList.org survey of over 3,000 members put Corbyn at an even stronger lead, with 73% saying they would vote for him. Pretty damn quick and I think that hundreds of thousands of people would. She added: “To win in 2020 the Labour Party must stick up for the people we were created to represent”.