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Here, we ask prominent south Essex Labour politicians who they are backing?

Labour’s former communications director, Alastair Campbell, said the party “could be finished” if Mr Corbyn wins.

Left wing candidate for the leadership of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn is heading 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.

Just two weeks ago, Ms Abbott sought to play down the possibility of Mr Corbyn becoming the Labour leadership frontrunner – although polls now suggest he is the clear favourite to succeed Ed Miliband. In 2015 it would appear that betting market’s reputation as the...

Mr Corbyn’s continuing surge in the battle to replace Ed Miliband has seen some install him as favourite but it has also sparked deep division among Labour MPs.

In the speech at Morningside Parish Church, Mr Murray – who held on to his seat with an increased majority despite the SNP’s landslide – is expected to say: “The way people engage with politics has changed, but the way the Scottish Labour Party has worked...

He spoke to Echo political reporter Jack Maidment about why the party needs to listen to what he has to say.

The trade union’s general secretary Dave Ward said that Corbyn was the antidote to the “virus within the Labour Party”.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the latest group to back Jeremy Corbyn as the next leader of the Labour party.

A natural rebel, he has voted against the Labour Whip a record 236 times, or 124 times more than William Hague.

Radical left-winger Jeremy Corbyn is on course to take Labour’s top job after storming 22 points ahead of his rivals, as mentioned by private polling.