Long-standing London communes given backing by Labour leader contender Jeremy

Northern Futures, formed by Jeremy Corbyn backers, will be unveiled at the leadership candidate’s rally in Sheffield.

‘We need to work ever more closely with our countries and allies.

“The North has been left behind over the last 30 years with policies imposed on high from Westminster and our regional voice has been drowned out”.

According to Bennetts, the editor and founder of Berfrois, the book was put together as a “gesture of support” for Corbyn’s campaign to become the Labour leader. More than 1,200 people responded.

He added: “This was a crisis brought about by rampant speculation in the City and the deference of successive governments to that corporate lobby”.

But writing in the Financial Times, Lord Mandelson said his support for “printing money, state ownership of major industries, unilateral disarmament and quitting North Atlantic Treaty Organisation… will make the party unelectable”.

Mr. Mandelson stated that “that would be a very bad outcome for anyone who cares about fairness in our society or Britain’s place in the world”.

The closing date for voting is September 10 with the result due to be announced two days later. For those of us who have once before trodden the road of rebuilding Labour, it would also be a poignant one”, adding that “the Corbyn insurgency owes little to what a potential majority of voters think or want.

The Labour leadership hopefuls, including Corbyn, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, this week held a meeting with party bosses amid claims of left and right-wing infiltration into the contest.

Mr Burnham focused his campaign yesterday on the need for reform of the House of Lords which he dubbed “a national embarrassment” after Prime Minister David Cameron named 45 new peers including former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling.

“We have allowed critics within the party to create a caricature of modernisation as a sectarian creed alien to the party’s values and history”, he writes.

‘To not realise that, he can’t have a grip on what is going on in the world today.