Labour Rebel MPs Plan to Elect Own Leader if Corbyn Gets Re-Elected

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell urged Mr Smith to condemn ” the minority of MPs supporting his campaign who are threatening to subvert the outcome of this election and cause enormous damage to the Labour Party”, but the leadership challenger responded by insisting he would not ” indulge in gossip”.

“This is a campaign about, on one level, the leadership of the Labour party, but it’s also a campaign about how we do politics in our society. Other candidates could come into the frame at that point”, a senior rebel Labour MP told the Telegraph.

“I’ve got mates who joined the particular group [Momentum], I’ve got mates who joined in order to vote for Jeremy, I’ve got members of my own party in Pontypridd who have joined because they think the party is heading in the right direction, and I agree with them”.

Although the CLP nominations have no bearing on which candidate is finally elected leader, they are a good indication of how Labour members and supporters might vote.

In the Corbyn camp, 10 councillors have backed the sitting leader of the party.

Fearing for its traditional strongholds, he said: “If the Labour Party lost 50 seats or something as a result of the swing away from Labour in the north of England and the Midlands, that would be disastrous”.

She wrote: “I did not vote for Jeremy to be Leader a year ago, but I chose to support him by accepting the position of Shadow Minister for Children, an area that is close to my heart”.

The Labour leader wants it to be mandatory for employers with more than 250 staff to bargain collectively with unions.

Most are more likely to bide their time and either wait until Corbyn loses an election, or launch another leadership bid when a rival has had more time to become established, he said.

Corbyn’s opponents challenged his leadership for what they call inadequate efforts to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union (EU).

Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, … “We want to see a Labour Party that properly holds the Tories to account, is capable of forming an alternative government and truly represents Britain”. “Is there any wonder that some of the activists are going out and doing the same to us on Twitter?”

Should a split occur in the Labour Party, despite Corbyn’s appeals, any movement he leads based on his watered-down reformist prescriptions would prove no more effective in defending the working class and opposing capitalism than he has been as Labour leader.

Where are the soundbites from those people in the crowd who like myself have been inspired into re-engaging with politics by Corbyn’s vision of a fairer and more equal society for all of us, regardless of age, gender, race, class or ability?