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He gained 251,417 or 59.5% of first preference votes – 40% more than his nearest rival Mr Burnham, who got 19%.

“Were you sent here by Conservative party headquarters?”

Challenged by Kendall on whether any circumstance might change his view on this, Corbyn responded: “Any?” The Tories want to wipe us out, and the minute the new leader is elected they are going to throw everything at us.

Most attention has thus far been focused on the panic within party ranks, the peculiarity of the selection system, and Corbyn’s past utterances.

Hunt, who had wanted to stand in the leadership contest but was unable to muster the support among fellow MPs, criticises the way party modernisers conducted their campaign on behalf of their favoured candidate, Liz Kendall. I seriously doubt Corbyn is that leader. One of the...

“If we have got to a point now where the Labour Party says it doesn’t want to listen to him then I would think we have lost the plot”, he told the Murnaghan show on Sky News. They have to go out and pretend to care about ordinary people while pushing an agenda...

There have been reports of Labour’s opponents taking advantage of a £3 offer to become registered member allowing them an individual vote in the leadership election.

Jeremy Corbyn has mooted the introduction of women-only carriages at night in response to rising reports of sexual harrassment and assault on public transport.

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

Mr Straw said: “I am voting for Yvette Cooper”.

But as he denied meeting Mr Jahjah in a lunchtime interview, a furious Mr Corbyn insisted he had spent his life fighting all forms of racism and said suggestions he was anti-Semitic were “beyond appalling”.

Mr Hunt is a supporter of Liz Kendall, seen as the most Blairite of the candidates – and the one who is lagging in the race, according to pollsters and bookies.

Ms Cooper is locked in a bitter battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, while the other contender Liz Kendall lags behind in fourth place. We need people dedicated to their brief who are able to work co-operatively with the party to set out a shared...

Membership of Aylesbury’s Labour party has doubled since the general election and there are more than 500 people here who are registered to vote in the contest.

London mayoral hopeful Diane Abbott, one of Mr Corbyn’s most prominent supporters, said accusations about the frontrunner’s associations with extremists such as Abou Jahjah and Palestinian militant group Hamas had surfaced because opponents are terrified he will take...