Rupert Murdoch predicts Jeremy Corbyn win in Labour leadership contest

The charge against the Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn is not that he is anti semitic.

A total of 8,391 people voted Labour in Aylesbury in May.

Ed Miliband, the former leader of the Labour Party, resigned after losing to the Conservatives in May’s elections.

He met about 20 members of the party at a meeting in Ipswich – and issued a stern warning about returning to the 1980s when, he said, the party proved to be unelectable, spending a total of 18 years in opposition.

Meanwhile Mr Corbyn’s two main rivals for the Labour leadership are engaged a bitter fight over who is best-placed to halt the left-winger’s charge.

As one key figure in the stop-Corbyn movement admits: ‘On some of the tests which people will set up he may actually do quite well: I could imagine people being interested in him and what he says and him seeming a breath of fresh air compared to some of the others.

Bookmaker Paddy Power has already paid out on bets that Mr Corbyn will win the contest while Scottish newspaper the Daily Record has endorsed the Islington North MP.

Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper, along with bookmakers’ favourite Jeremy Corbyn, have all put themselves forward for the job and after weeks of campaigning, voting has got underway.

“Andy has experience and I think he is Prime Ministerial material”.

Corbyn’s surprise popularity among members and has caused consternation in the higher echelons of the party.

The editorial concludes: “So we ask our readers who have a vote in the contest to think about the long-term health of the party”.

And to cheers and applause from party members, he added: “If we had listened to our councillors through our term in government we would have done a simple thing – built more council houses”. “And I want to see real democracy so this election gives a very strong mandate for change within our society”.

Ballot papers sent out by the party to the first of more than 600,000 voters will begin arriving this week and Mr Burnham will attempt to portray the contest as a straight battle between himself and Mr Corbyn.

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.

‘What I find disappointing is those who say we’re going to be against everything no matter what it is, ‘ he said.

The Labour leadership frontrunner had declared that he did not know who Dyab Abou Jahjah was as he angrily dismissed allegations of anti-Semitism.

The JC had featured the news that the then Board of Deputies president Henry Grunwald QC had written to the Home Secretary of the time, Jacqui Smith, to raise concerns about Jahjah’s presence in Britain.

An avowed socialist and long-serving lawmaker, Corbyn was nominated to represent his party’s far left and has shot up in the polls thanks to a swell of grassroots support.